http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Condorcet Posts tagged with 'Condorcet' at MetaFilter. Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:28:14 -0800 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:28:14 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69184/the%2Dmost%2Deffective%2Dmeans%2Dof%2Dpopular%2Deducation%2Dat%2Dsociety%3Fs%2Ddisposal <blockquote>I think that the main reason for the practical intelligence and the political good sense of the Americans is their long experience with juries in civil cases. I do not know whether a jury is useful to the litigants, but I am sure it is very good for those who have to decide the case. I regard it as one of the most effective means of popular education at society’s disposal.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/?issue=70">Dissent </a>offers commentaries on jury duty from <a href="http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1004">Alexis de Toqueville</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1065">Joanne Barkan</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1073">Paul Berman</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1066">Susan Cheever</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1067">Nicolaus Mills</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1068">Maxine Phillips</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1069">Ruth Rosen</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1070">Jim Sleeper</a>, <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1071">Michael Walzer</a>, and <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1072">Darryl Lorrenzo Wellington</a>. Also of interest: Condorcet's <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CdIOKZWc3oMC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=condorcet+and+juries&source=web&ots=VJlglISiZX&sig=xnuTGSQ_M_OxT-Yu9tlUmsif2x4">Jury Theorem</a> List and Goodin on <a href="http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showPdf?submitPDF=Full+Text+PDF+%28236+KB%29&doi=10.1111%2F1467-9760.00128&cookieSet=1">Epistemic Democracy</a> (pdf) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69184 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:28:14 -0800 civiceducation civicengagement civicvirtue Condorcet darryllorrenzowellington dissent epistemicdemocracy JimSleeper JoanneBarkan juryduty law MaxinePhillips MichaelWalzer NicolausMills PaulBerman RuthRosen SusanCheever Tocqueville anotherpanacea http://www.metafilter.com/64188/Mathematics%2Dvs%2DDemocracy%2DA%2DClear%2DWinner%2Dor%2Da%2DTie%2DGame The <a href="http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Condorcet.html">Marquis de Condorcet</a> and Admiral <a href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Borda.html">Jean-Charles de Borda</a> were two men of the French Enlightenment who struggled with how to design voting systems that accurately reflected voters' preferences. Condorcet favored a <a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Condorcet_method">method</a> that required the winner in a multiparty election to win a series of head-to-head contests, but he also discovered that his method easily led to a <a href="http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/10007.8.shtml">paradoxes</a> that produced no clear winners. The <a href="http://www.sci.wsu.edu/math/Lessons/Voting/Module3_2.html">Borda method</a> avoids the Condorcet paradox by requiring voters to rank choices numerically in order of preference, but this method is flawed because the withdrawal of a last-place candidate can reverse the <a href="http://rangevoting.org/rangeVborda.html#JohnsonEx">election results</a>. Mathematicians in the 19th century attempted to design better voting systems, including <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/politics1.html">Lewis Carroll</a>, who favored an early form of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792396200/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">proportional representation</a>. Economist Kenneth Arrow argued that designing a perfect voting system was futile, because his <a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Arrow's_impossibility_theorem">"impossibility theorem"</a> proved that it's impossible to design a non-dictatorial voting system that fulfills <a href="http://www.fiu.edu/~cvaug001/voting/criteria_list.html">five basic criteria of fairness</a>. (more inside) tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64188 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:11:39 -0800 Bayes Borda Carroll Condorcet Duverger Duverger'sLaw elections KennethArrow LewisCarroll math mathematics pluralityvoting thirdparties voting votingsystems jonp72