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The nature of democracy. There's a strong selection bias for positions which attract more votes. Ergo, all parties continually optimize their positions, and ap
by ethbr0 5y ago
The nature of democracy. There's a strong selection bias for positions which attract more votes.
Ergo, all parties continually optimize their positions, and apparently meet at a boundary that's usually about half the elective.
- guerrilla 5y ago> The nature of democracy. Not really. There are basically no countries in Europe with a 50/50 split. > There's a strong selection bias for positions which attract more votes Again, no, not really in Europe with proportional representation or similar systems.
- ethbr0 5y ago* Winner take all democracy If 50+1 wasn't the magic number, it makes sense you'd see parties optimizing for other things.