[Election-Methods] Determining representativeness of multiwinner methods

[Juho]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 0:34 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:

> What do you mean by "methods that allow candidates to form a
> tree like structure"? Something like delegable proxy, or just
> preference ballots with parties instead of candidates? Or
> nontraditional nested democracy (groups elect members to an
> assembly - groups of assemblies elect members to a second-
> level assembly, onwards up to global issues)?

I was thinking about the traditional party structure and proportional  
methods and how they may provide quite exact proportionality between  
parties but how they can not provide proportionality in any more  
detailed level. In this set-up it is possible to split one party e.g.  
to the green wing and others, and then the green wing could consist  
of radical and moderate greens. A vote to the radical greens (of this  
party) would be a vote also to the green wing in general and to the  
party in general.

The point was that now you could have even the binary decisions  
"stacked" in the party hierarchy (at least if the tree would be a  
binary tree). In this model it would also make a difference if you  
vote the green wing of the socialists or the socialist wing of the  
greens (order of priority).

Juho






	
	
		
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