<div dir="ltr"><div>Michael, yes, Banks is a subset of Landau which is a subset of Smith. A candidate is in Banks if she is at the head of a maximal chain linearly ordered by pairwise defeats. [ Each candidate in such a chain beats all of the candidates below it and is beaten by all of the candidates above it. A maximal chain cannot be extended upward.]<br>
<br></div>I could derive all of the properties of this method from scratch, but to save time I'm going to look up Jobst's original entry on it in the archives.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Michael Ossipoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com" target="_blank">email9648742@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Forest--</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">I haven't yet found a definition of the Banks set that I understand. Is the Banks set a subset of the Smith set. If so, then, from what you said, Jobst's method meets Smith, which means that it meets MMC.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">Then, it has what I consider to be the important properties of Benham and Woodall:</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">MMC + CD + Condorcet.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">...with the added bonus of avoiding criticism about the possibility of nonmonotonicity.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">Clone Independence is another bonus. Benham and Woodall meet Clone Independence too, don't they?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">So my question is: Are all Banks set members also members of the Smith set? Does Jobst's method meet Smith?</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">
What is the name of Jobst's method?</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">Is it right to say that a ballot implicitly approves a candidate if it doesn't bottom-rank hir? </div><div class="gmail_extra">
</div><div class="gmail_extra">(Where a ballot bottom ranks a candidate if it doesn't rank her over anyone, and ranks someone over hir)</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">What is the name of that method introduced by Jobst? Is "Chain-Climbing" its name?</div>
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