I wonder how this generalizes to decisions that aren’t just about electing candidates, but involve a combinatorial explosion of possible courses of action. E.g.: “We can have our conference on either Friday or Saturday. We can invite Professor Alice as a keynote speaker, or Senator Bob, but Senator Bob is only available on Saturday. If it’s Saturday we can invite both, but then we must choose another item to delete from the agenda. Or we could have a session on both Friday and Saturday, but then we must raise the ticket price by $X...”
In a typical Robert’s-Rules meeting the outcome will sometimes depend in a fairly arbitrary way upon the order in which the various alternatives were suggested. Approval voting wouldn’t have that problem, but may become inefficient if combinatorial decisions like this come up a lot.
I wonder how this generalizes to decisions that aren’t just about electing candidates, but involve a combinatorial explosion of possible courses of action. E.g.: “We can have our conference on either Friday or Saturday. We can invite Professor Alice as a keynote speaker, or Senator Bob, but Senator Bob is only available on Saturday. If it’s Saturday we can invite both, but then we must choose another item to delete from the agenda. Or we could have a session on both Friday and Saturday, but then we must raise the ticket price by $X...”
In a typical Robert’s-Rules meeting the outcome will sometimes depend in a fairly arbitrary way upon the order in which the various alternatives were suggested. Approval voting wouldn’t have that problem, but may become inefficient if combinatorial decisions like this come up a lot.
anscombe’s paradox.
https://www.rangevoting.org/XYvote