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Line 1: Hi, I'm Lucas. I tend to write a lot, especially about democracy and voting systems. I was invited to post some stuff to this wiki to serve as future reference to others. Contrary to most people who seem to engage with voting system theory, I prefer to take a much more cultural and almost anthropological or philosophical approach to the subject, but also heavily relying on mathematics beyond social choice theory (mostly decision theory). My perspective is about '''''what''''' we are trying to achieve by the process of ''making collective decisions'', '''''why''''' such processes are desirable to begin with, and '''''how''''' different voting systems reflect those goals and principles. My formal, mathematical approach to voting system analysis is based on <math>N</math>-dimensional (with <math>N \ge 4</math>), ''absolute'' political opinion spaces and multidimensional population distributions, and all voters have inherently fuzzy opinions and utilities. To me, candidates, parties and voting systems are merely ''means to an end'', so without having a clear notion of ''what the end is'', we cannot hope to find the ''best means''. ~~This perspective of mine underlies most of the content I post here.~~ == Opinion pieces ==

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