[EM] RE : Does this method already have a name?

[Kevin Venzke]

Forest,

--- Forest W Simmons <fsimmons at pcc.edu> a écrit :
> Ballots are ordinal with approval cutoffs.
> 
> The candidate with "Maximum Minimal Reactionary Approval" wins.
> 
> A candidate's "reactionary approval" relative to another candidate is 
> the approval she would get if the approval cutoff were moved adjacent 
> to (but not past) the other candidate's position in the ballot order on 
> every ballot.
>
> So each candidate's score is her minimum reactionary approval relative 
> to the other candidates.  The candidate with the highest score wins.

Can you define "adjacent"? There are two places where an approval cutoff
could be adjacent to a candidate. It's unambiguous if you're saying the
voter actually places an approval cutoff, but I'm not sure you're saying
that.

Kevin Venzke




      
	
		
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