Proportional representation: Difference between revisions

Phragmen and Monroe share many desirable and undesirable properties. Most importantly a lack of convexity, the ability for votes that give every candidate the same score to affect the outcome. There are also election scenarios where both philosophies pick what is clearly the wrong winner. Further details can be found in the “Pereira’s Complaints about Monroe” section of [https://rangevoting.org/MonroeMW.html Monroe’s method] or the “Major defect pointed out by Toby Pereira” section of this [http://scorevoting.net/PRintLinprog.html Phragmen-Type method])

 

 

'''Benefits of the Phragmen/Monroe/Unitary measure of proportionality:'''