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I find CGP Grey does an excellent job of explaining things very simply in his youtube videos. Personally, i'd like to see these run on British TV. http://blog.
by TamDenholm 16y ago
I find CGP Grey does an excellent job of explaining things very simply in his youtube videos. Personally, i'd like to see these run on British TV.
http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/ http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/
- yannickmahe 16y agoI was going to show that link as well. His explanation of instant runoff convinced me.
- DennisP 16y agoInstant runoff has some mathematical problems. Ranking your favorite candidate highly can actually work against you. http://www.rangevoting.org/IrvPathologySurvey.html http://www.rangevoting.org/IrvPathologySurvey.html Empirically, every country with instant runoff still has two-party dominance. A better system is range voting: http://www.rangevoting.org/ http://www.rangevoting.org/ For a really great book on different voting systems and their advantages and disadvantages, see Gaming the Vote by William Poundstone.
- jacques_chester 16y ago> Empirically, every country with instant runoff still has two-party dominance. I suspect this a property of single-member electorates. Australia has IRV, but Senators are elected proportionally within each state. The major parties have more members but do not always command a majority, and most Senates require negotiation to proceed. However because the House of Representatives almost always goes to one party or the other, it is possible to form the Executive and govern. It's a fairly effective hybrid.
- MetalAndWheels 16y agoThanks for that. I'm the creator of those videos and I'm really glad to know that the AV one actually changed minds.
- DRMacIver 16y agoThanks. I've only just got around to watching these, and they're really very good.