[Election-Methods] PR favoring racial minorities (Gilmour/Dopp?)

[Juho]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 0:50 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:

> In any case, the left-right problem would still be a limitation to  
> RRV, where ballots are set so that RV (and any sensible method)  
> would elect Center first, but where electing an assembly of two  
> should elect Left and Right. For some reason, that problem doesn't  
> appear in party list, but I don't know why.

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, but isn't that the same  
difference as between highest average based methods (http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_averages_method) and largest reminder  
based methods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_remainder_method)  
that both can be used with party lists?

I guess any method that picks the winners one by one until sufficient  
number of representatives has been elected fails to elect both the  
centrist (1 representative) and left+right (2 representatives) in the  
example above. On the other hand if we follow the example that means  
that Alabama paradox is what we want.

Juho




	
	
		
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