[EM] Social choice commits election referendum paradox.

[Richard Lung]

Social choice theory commits the election referendum paradox.

The election referendum paradox means the paradox of electing an 
election. If you know which election to elect elections, then you have 
already elected the election.

This is the paradox that social choice theory commits. It assumes 
preference voting with over-all mjority counting (Iain McLean: Democracy 
and New Technology) as the stand-point from which to judge election 
systems in general, as deficient, in various ways. But in so doing, it 
has elected an election system, with which to do this (IRV or the 
Alternative Vote).

Moreover, IRV is not a general election system, as it restricts choice 
or election to a single representatie, a special case, and is therefore 
inadequate to draw general conclusions about elections, anyway.

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Richard Lung.
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