[EM] brainstorm'n electoral calculus on acid...

[David L Wetzell]

>
> 1. I disagree; I do not think IRV will do well in the scenario you
> describe.
>

Well that's why we'd need to try it out....

>
> 2. It's too complex. We need toy models that focus on one aspect at a
> time, not anything that tries to be realistic. Think macroeconomics 101
> (saltwater), where anything that doesn't fit on one graph is put off until
> next year.
>

Nope.  The whole is more than the sum of its parts.  We can and should go
beyond Macro 101.

I'm willing to defend each part of the model here, but I think it as a
whole captures an environment where election rules have different effects
in a system where the center is somewhat opaque and parties are not
stationary or able to reposition themselves at will along the 1-d space
used by voters .

So "chicken"???
dlw

>
> jq
>
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