[Election-Methods] Challenge: Elect the compromise when there're only 2 factions

[heitzig-j at web.de]

Dear Diego,

> In most societies, the "majority dictatorship" is not a major problem because electors' preferences shift along time, and the 49% can became the majoritarian faction in the next elections.

They may become a majority but often they are not for a long time. As you don't seem to like chance, why do you suggest to base political participation on chance?
 
> In divided societies for ethnic, cultural or religious system, where consensus is desirable, proprotional representation for legislatures and supermajoritarian methods for single-winner elections (as for head of state in many parliamentary republics) are better than probabilistic methods.

Are they? Why do you think so? And what exactly do you think a proportional representation will help when the representative body decides with a majoritarian method?

Yours, Jobst

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