[EM] name of multi-winner method

[Jobst Heitzig]

Of course! Thank you very much. I was not aware of the "poorest first" 
variant and thought that asset voting always involves a negotiation 
after the voting.

So, it could be called "automatic bottom-up asset voting" or so...

Diego Santos schrieb:
> I think this method is Warren Smith's multiwinner "poorest first"asset 
> voting with predefined lists.
> 
> 2008/11/16 Jobst Heitzig <heitzig-j at web.de <mailto:heitzig-j at web.de>>
> 
>     Hi Kristofer,
> 
>         That's just the multiwinner adaptation of IRV.
> 
> 
>     I don't think so! The point is that the *candidates* provide the
>     ranking from which the vote transfers are determined. The idea is to
>     keep it maximally simple for the voters: they still vote for only
>     one candidate.
> 
>     I now realize that it is also different from STV in an important
>     respect: there is no transfer of excess votes!
> 
>     What I want with this method is a maximally simple multi-winner
>     method that does not rely on lists but is focussed on individual
>     candidates and that makes sure that all large-enough minorities are
>     represented. It is not important that it results in proportionality,
>     hence it needs no transfer of excess votes.
> 
>     Perhaps this is actually a new method? If so, what would we call it?
> 
>     Jobst
> 
>     I don't think it has a
> 
>         formal name, but here's how I've defined (naive) multiwinner
>         adaptations in my simulations:
> 
>         Take single-winner method X. Produce a social ordering, then if
>         there are k winners to be elected, pick the k highest ranked on
>         the social ordering, and elect them.
> 
>         The social ordering of IRV is opposite of its elimination order:
>         the one who's eliminated in the first round is ranked last, and
>         so on.
> 
>         -- 
> 
>         That is, unless "the next candidate on her list" is the next
>         candidate on the *candidate*'s list, in which case it would be a
>         sort of STV-Asset/Party-list hybrid.
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