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That's actually exactly what I had in mind. Range voting[0], for example, doesn't suffer from Arrow's impossibility theorem, Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, nor
by desdiv 12y ago
That's actually exactly what I had in mind. Range voting[0], for example, doesn't suffer from Arrow's impossibility theorem, Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, nor the Condorcet's paradox.
[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting
- thaumasiotes 12y agoYou know, I had a long comment here pointing out many problems with range voting. Instead, I'd like to observe that it really takes balls to defend range voting as "not suffering from the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem" when it's easy to show that range voting exhibits one of the failures that the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem guarantees in pure-ranking voting systems. Sure, the premises don't hold, but so what? If Gibbard-Satterthwaite did apply to range voting, that would guarantee no other problems than already occur. Theorem: Hitting your thumb with a steel hammer, instead of hitting the nail, hurts like crazy! Problem: The pain of a smashed thumb is bad. Solution: Use an iron hammer. The requirements of the earlier theorem don't apply.