I’m not sure “should work” is a phrase I’d use for this topic (topic being “large-group decision-making”). I’m kind of shocked anything works at all, and I suspect it’s mostly because voting isn’t the main process for deciding anything important.
If legitimacy/acceptance is the main criterion for a voting system, the first things to “fix” are not the geeky “better aggregation of private preferences” mechanisms that we love so much. The problems in trust come from the ludicrous deviations that multi-level aggregation (electoral college and arbitrary geographic divisions) and indirection/bundling of issues (voting for people or parties rather than issues) cause/reveal.
Can you say some about how you think this should work?
I’m not sure “should work” is a phrase I’d use for this topic (topic being “large-group decision-making”). I’m kind of shocked anything works at all, and I suspect it’s mostly because voting isn’t the main process for deciding anything important.
If legitimacy/acceptance is the main criterion for a voting system, the first things to “fix” are not the geeky “better aggregation of private preferences” mechanisms that we love so much. The problems in trust come from the ludicrous deviations that multi-level aggregation (electoral college and arbitrary geographic divisions) and indirection/bundling of issues (voting for people or parties rather than issues) cause/reveal.