[EM] Burlington manifesto

[Jameson Quinn]

2011/11/7 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at lavabit.com>

> Jameson Quinn wrote:
>
>  Condorcet*: Elects center with honesty? Yes; 10/10
>>
>> Doesn't elect Condorcet loser, even with strategy? Usually not, though it
>> is in theory possible for the L voters to shoot themselves in the foot by
>> strategically provoking a L>R>C>L cycle but end up electing R thereby.
>> SInce this is pretty implausible, I'll give Condorcet systems 5/5 here.
>> Could elect pairwise winner of extremes if Center is inherently weak? No
>> way. 0/5
>> Total quality: 15/20
>>
>
> Do you think a hybrid cardinal/Condorcet method could avoid a weak Center,
> or would it have to fail the (rank-based) Condorcet criterion in order to
> do so?
>
> At the moment, I suspect it would have to fail the condorcet criterion. I
suspect such failure would be akin to how median-based methods (MJ,
Bucklin, etc.) fail Condorcet; that is, something that might never even
happen for large-electorate elections. Both of these suspicions are weak
intuitions at the moment and I could be wrong.

Jameson
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