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by lkrubner 4y ago
The above example is not STV nor MMP so the person you are responding to is strictly correct.
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A comparison of constitutional crisis in Hungary and the USA: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...
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You’re defining gerrymandering as a deliberate act, but a looser definition includes the entire effect of geographic districts on the outcome of elections, including non-intentional effects. The article gives an example identical to yours.
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That's an open question and I think everyone would answer it differently. In an earlier essay I suggested that we live in a complex world with a sophisticated division of labor, and therefore all real power should move to the specializ
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The current iteration of primaries, and the government paying for them, got going in the USA during the 1960s. It was the start of the populist revolt, and part of the goal was to weaken the political parties. Progressive reformers were mot
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"if you still value the notion that local communities should be able to have their collective power represented" Your town assembly can take care of the concerns of your town. Your regional assembly can take care of the concerns o
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As with software, whatever the real goal is should be decided and then approached directly. Any effect that is brought about as an accidental side effect of an unrelated architectural decision should be regraded as a flaw in the system. If
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"A unstated assumption here is a winner-takes-all election system" In terms of the math, increasing the number of representatives from each district is the same as making the districts smaller. As the essay said: "As the dist
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Your town assembly can take care of the concerns of your town. Your provincial assembly can take care of the concerns of your province. Your National Assembly can take care of the concerns of your nation. We can get rid of gerrymandering an
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"If we believe that the appropriate compromise is no one's first choice" The winner in RCV will always be someone's first choice.
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by lkrubner 4y ago
From the essay: Some nations have fine-grained representation of land but course-grained representation of ideas Some nations have fine-grained representation of ideas but course-grained representation of land You cannot have both, unless y
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How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising(demodexio.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Two things: My parents were given, as a gift, a wool blanket in 1963, and it was on our beds when we were children, and I have it on my bed now. It’s durability is like something out of a science-fiction story, an incredible substance that
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by lkrubner 4y ago
No, it assumes amnesia on the part of the voters. There is an abundance of evidence backing up the assumption of amnesia. Study after study shows that voters are only paying attention for the 6 months before an election. Even where 80% of t
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by lkrubner 4y ago
For what it's worth, I'm working on a software simulation that will allow testing of different systems, to see how close a system of voting can come to aggregating the preferences of voters. Back in 1953, Kenneth Arrow published h
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by lkrubner 4y ago
We did a long comparison of the constitutional crisis in Hungary and the USA here: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...
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by lkrubner 4y ago
You continue to play with words. You are using words to obscure your meaning, rather than reveal your meaning.
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It is often said that the USA Supreme Court is politicized because it is chosen by elected officials, whereas in Britain the recommendations for the high court are made by legalists, and therefore the British high court is less political.
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Exactly the same as Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill, everyone eventually faces some defeat and decides they are old enough that it is time to resign.
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You seem to be playing with words. Governments exist among all human societies, not just nation-states. About this: "There is no reason why it among all possible forms of organization" Whatever form of organization you want to inv
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Plato was among the first to stand liberalism in contrast to democracy: ---------------- Hayek said "If I have to chose between a democratic society and a liberal society, then I must choose a liberal society." That idea has been
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Suggested in a previous essay, in a world of complexity and great specialization, political power should shift to the highly specialized committees: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...
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by lkrubner 4y ago
We can go further down this road, moving all political power to the committees: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...
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by lkrubner 4y ago
It is often said that the USA Supreme Court is politicized because it is chosen by elected officials, whereas in Britain the recommendations for the high court is made by legalists, and therefore the British high court is less political.
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" They are office-less companies but they are not remote-friendly. " It's going to be a long, long time before most companies are remote-friendly. That is a skill that will run short of demand for a long time to come. I spoke
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by lkrubner 4y ago
All known human societies have government, even the most primitive tribes, so I'm not clear what your point is. I was just reading about the The Tripolye Culture giant-settlements in Ukraine, from 7,000 years ago, who seem to have had
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by lkrubner 4y ago
That is what it says: "In the case of someone like Margaret Thatcher, it was a deliberate choice to give her a Tory safe seat."
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Addressed in a previous essay: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/how-to-fix-democracy-empowe...
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We compared Hungary and the USA here: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Addressed in a previous essay: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/how-to-fix-democracy-empowe...

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