[EM] Will to Compromise

[Jobst Heitzig]

Dear Kristofer,

you wrote:
> With more candidates, a minority might find that it needs to approve of 
> a compromise with just slightly better expected value than random 
> ballot, if the majority says that it's not going to pick a "compromise" 
> closer to the minority than that just-slightly-better candidate.
> 
> That is, it would give an incentive to compromise early, under the 
> threat that to do otherwise might make the method fall back to random 
> ballot, and the compromise is better than random ballot even if it's not 
> all that much better.

True. But for the minority, Random Ballot is usually already much better than the majority preference, so that would be OK, right?

Yours, Jobst