[EM] Eric Maskin promotes the Black method

[Jameson Quinn]

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> and we've all been groping for a name for this primary voting criteria that
> is not this non-American, Frenchie, probably sorta pinko-socialist secular
> humanist "intellectual" (did i mention *not* American?) whose heresy is
> leading us away from the One True Faith of the Single Affirmative Vote.  we
> have sects in the One True Faith, some of us believe in the sanctity of the
> Two Party System: "if yer ain't fer us, you agin' us.  and pass da
> ammunition, Ma."
>
> i don't have a better idea than "true majority rule".  but there must be a
> better one than that.  Warren, i remember you like "beats-all winner" for
> the CW.  i wonder if the "beats-all method" is a good label.
>
> At one point I ran a poll to try to decide on good names for Condorcet
voting (as well as for Range/Score and for  MCA/ER-Bucklin/median-based
systems). You can see the results here <http://betterpolls.com/v/1189>.
Ironically, there was a Condorcet cycle on what to call Condorcet; the smith
set was [Instant?] Round Robin Voting; Pairwise Champion Voting; and
Beats-All Voting.

Since then, I've tried to use the term "pairwise champion" for the CW,
except occasionally when I'm writing about mathematical issues to a
highly-savvy audience. In my opinion, that terminology works well. I do not,
therefore, think that PCV is necessarily the best "brand" for Condorcet
systems; I think that probably IRRV is good for that (despite the fact that
it suggests Copeland as the tiebreaker, whereas I support C//A as the best
simply-explainable tiebreaker). The similarity with IRV is a good thing, to
my mind, though I understand that some may disagree.

Note that if you google "True Majority Voting", you'll find that there was a
recent (but now-defunct??) attempt by IRV advocates to appropriate this
term. I think that "true majority" is less explanatory than IRRV, PCV, or
BAV.

JQ
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