[EM] Semantics of voting
Colin Champion
colin.champion at routemaster.app
Tue Mar 1 09:03:59 PST 2022
I started drafting a post on this subject, but it got longer and longer
so I turned it into a web page:
http://www.masterlyinactivity.com/condorcet/semantics.html
Briefly, I argue that discussions of voting methods are only
meaningful if a semantics can be attached to the correctness of
electoral decisions; that models (such as jury and spatial models) can
provide such a semantics, leading to a Bayesian interpretation of
correctness; that the logical criteria stand or fall according to
whether they can be validated under a suitable semantics; that some
stand, some fall, and some are best seen as statistical approximations.
The topics I discuss are ones I have not seen addressed elsewhere. I
have no idea how new my ideas are, or whether, if I was better grounded
in the field, I'd have been able to discuss the subject with greater wisdom.
CJC
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