Every one of those analyses without exception makes the same assumption: Politics is about individuals with Opinions, and that voting is about choosing the politician whose Opinions have the lowest root mean square Opinion Distance from all the individuals.
This is the whole basis of the Condorcet criterion, and by this metric, approval voting does very well.
But if you think any of that has any relationship whatsoever with political economy you need to kill the liberal in your head.
This is a :vote: thread on the hexbear dot net. I think "Not that this has anything to do with political economy in the real world" is automatically implied.
Every one of those analyses without exception makes the same assumption: Politics is about individuals with Opinions, and that voting is about choosing the politician whose Opinions have the lowest root mean square Opinion Distance from all the individuals.
This is the whole basis of the Condorcet criterion, and by this metric, approval voting does very well.
But if you think any of that has any relationship whatsoever with political economy you need to kill the liberal in your head.
This is a :vote: thread on the hexbear dot net. I think "Not that this has anything to do with political economy in the real world" is automatically implied.