Comments on: Self-Ruled or Rule-Ruled?

By: Laugh About It, Shout About It, When You’ve Got to Choose § Unqualified Offerings

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:26:37 +0000

[...] Will Wilkinson used to blog about alternate voting schemes. One post reported on a proposal to use cast ballots as, essentially, raffle tickets. I thought he had more, [...]

By: Ilse Jacobsen Sko

Ilse Jacobsen Sko — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:52:56 +0000

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By: Ilse Jacobsen Sko

Ilse Jacobsen Sko — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:52:00 +0000

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By: dkfinder

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By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:08:00 +0000

I believe it was Bob McGrew (my co-blogger at Cardinal Collective) who I was discussing this system with once, who pointed out that in fact this is one of the few voting schemes that will manage to satisfy the desiderata of Arrow’s Theorem. This is because in the non-randomized case, the only system that does this is dictatorship (letting one individual make the choice), and in the randomized case, the only ones that do are linear combinations of those that do, and this is the symmetric linear combination of all of the dictatorships.

By: washerdreyer

washerdreyer — Mon, 09 May 2005 18:13:00 +0000

Many of those concepts are addressed, though not in any particular Eskridge, Jr.; Frickey; and Garrett, Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and The Creation of Public Policy. 3rd Edition. Which I’m reviewing for my last law school exam of the year, and thereby providing small counter example to Amar’s point

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Mon, 09 May 2005 00:46:00 +0000

Public Choice III, by Dennis Mueller.

By: Wild Pegasus

Wild Pegasus — Mon, 09 May 2005 00:38:00 +0000

But the Condorcet Paradox, agenda manipulation, May’s Theorem, single peakedness, Downsian equilibrium, Black’s Theorem and the like, are not [part of law school curricula] –not yet, at least.

If there are any books explaining these concepts to the intelligent laymen, I’m all ears.

- Josh

By: James Barnett

James Barnett — Sun, 08 May 2005 22:38:00 +0000

Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but this sounds just like proportional representation. Under this system of elections, these small, single-issue parties just gang up and form coalitions.
Isn’t that what basically have already? Extremists and centerists are in both parties and ideologues, like environmentalists and libertarians, play both parties more or less.