Executive summary: Democracy should optimize for average preferences rather than majority rule, and parliaments should use averaging or ranked voting instead of majoritarianism for certain separable decisions.
Key points:
The general interest can be defined using cardinal normalized preferences and multiple related elections, overcoming Arrow’s impossibility theorem.
Storable Votes and SV-PAYW mechanisms allow for minority view integration in sequential decisions.
Governments are necessary due to synergies between political decisions, making assembly rule inefficient.
For separable decisions, parliaments should use averaging or ranked voting instead of majority rule.
Examples of areas where averaging could be used: NGO subsidy allocation, infrastructure spending, judicial nominations, and public media control.
The author invites readers to suggest additional areas where non-majoritarian decision-making could be applied in parliaments.
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Executive summary: Democracy should optimize for average preferences rather than majority rule, and parliaments should use averaging or ranked voting instead of majoritarianism for certain separable decisions.
Key points:
The general interest can be defined using cardinal normalized preferences and multiple related elections, overcoming Arrow’s impossibility theorem.
Storable Votes and SV-PAYW mechanisms allow for minority view integration in sequential decisions.
Governments are necessary due to synergies between political decisions, making assembly rule inefficient.
For separable decisions, parliaments should use averaging or ranked voting instead of majority rule.
Examples of areas where averaging could be used: NGO subsidy allocation, infrastructure spending, judicial nominations, and public media control.
The author invites readers to suggest additional areas where non-majoritarian decision-making could be applied in parliaments.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.