[EM] Re: majority rule, mutinous pirates, and voter strategy

[Stephane Rouillon]

Juho just showed another way of using time to get some efficiency
without sacrifying fairness. A better example than any I could provide...

My sincere congratulations,
Steph.

Juho Laatu a écrit :

> Hello James,
>
> In the pirate example one could take a step in the direction of
> proportional representation and give up the original idea of single
> winner elections. It is the captain that is to be elected, and there is
> a tradition of having only one captain on a ship. In this situation one
> could consider arranging the proportional representation in a serial
> mode, not in the traditional parallel mode. What I mean is that the
> community could agree (beforehand) to divide the post in time, let's
> say in n consecutive terms. I'm not proposing any particular method,
> nor to do this in real life (just presenting ideas popping in my head),
> but this would anyway be one way of dealing with the fractioned
> electorate.
>
> BR, Juho
>
> P.S. To increase proportionality one could even consider n terms of
> different lengths.
>
> On May 27, 2005, at 13:25, James Gilmour wrote:
>
> > Stephane Rouillon Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:44 AM
> >> Criterias and electoral methods hare not meant to
> >> cope for a fractionated electorate. An electoral system
> >> goal is to get the electorate will, whatever it is.
> >
> > This may be true for single-winner elections, eg city mayor, state
> > governor, but fractionated electorates are the
> > realities of politics in the real world.
> >
> > For elections to councils, assemblies and legislatures it is only one
> > view of the goal of an electoral system.  Those
> > steeped in social choice theory believe that the purpose of a voting
> > system should be to maximise representation of
> > consensus among the electors.  But there is a much older view: that
> > the purpose of a voting system should be to maximise
> > representation of the diversity among the electors.
> >
> > James Gilmour
> >
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