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Because the political spectrum really is a 2d (if not 3d or 4d) field. Progressive <-> Conservative and Liberal <-> Authoritarian. If it were really just two ca
by optimuspaul 10y ago
Because the political spectrum really is a 2d (if not 3d or 4d) field. Progressive <-> Conservative and Liberal <-> Authoritarian. If it were really just two candidates then perhaps there would be just once metric to track.
- baddox 10y agoIt's not just the political spectrum. You need at least 2 spatial dimensions to demonstrate the possibility of non-transitive group preferences (i.e. the community prefers candidate A > B > C > A), which is one fundamental reason Arrow's impossibility theorem is true. If candidates are just on a number line, then the group's preferences would always be transitive and there would always be a Condorcet winner (or a tie).