That’s interesting. Thanks for linking to that. As I said in my other comment though, there are still significant problems with that voting system—even if it does technically meet all of Arrow’s criterion. It encourages strategic voting to a tremendous degree, as you have no incentive to give any points to a candidate that you don’t want to see win. In that sense, it would likely result in an election almost identical to approval voting—which doesn’t fit Arrow’s criteria.
If you could trust voters to actually rank their preferences, then almost any voting system would work well—it’s just a question of opinion on which you think is “fairest”. I’m a IRV person, myself. Or a slight modification thereof. But I digress.
When it comes to large scale voting systems, I actually think that because of the Public Good nature of intelligent voting, voters are likely to vote with prosocial intent but also irrationally (they want the government to be good for people in general, but they favor stupid methods for doing that; see this). Thus the major problem large scale voting systems have is not the design of the voting system but with poor decision making on the part of voters. I actually have a proposal for taking advantage of prosocial voting but encouraging more intelligent voting decisions (link). I do not claim it is likely to ever get enacted.
That’s interesting. Thanks for linking to that. As I said in my other comment though, there are still significant problems with that voting system—even if it does technically meet all of Arrow’s criterion. It encourages strategic voting to a tremendous degree, as you have no incentive to give any points to a candidate that you don’t want to see win. In that sense, it would likely result in an election almost identical to approval voting—which doesn’t fit Arrow’s criteria.
If you could trust voters to actually rank their preferences, then almost any voting system would work well—it’s just a question of opinion on which you think is “fairest”. I’m a IRV person, myself. Or a slight modification thereof. But I digress.
When it comes to large scale voting systems, I actually think that because of the Public Good nature of intelligent voting, voters are likely to vote with prosocial intent but also irrationally (they want the government to be good for people in general, but they favor stupid methods for doing that; see this). Thus the major problem large scale voting systems have is not the design of the voting system but with poor decision making on the part of voters. I actually have a proposal for taking advantage of prosocial voting but encouraging more intelligent voting decisions (link). I do not claim it is likely to ever get enacted.