That was when Kenneth Arrow, an economist at Stanford, examined a set of requirements that you'd think any reasonable voting system could satisfy, and proved that nothing can meet them all when there are more than two candidates.
The economist Kenneth Arrow, Gottlieb writes, "examined a set of requirements that you'd think any reasonable voting system could satisfy, and proved that nothing can meet them all when there are more than two candidates" — and won the 1972 Nobel Prize for this discouraging discovery.
It would be reasonable to vote for a party that you thought had such qualities – and I suspect lots of people did on 7 May.
The chairman of the august Senate foreign relations committee specializes in sounding reasonable while voting solidly along party lines.
In other words, if a juror were mostly or nearly convinced that a defendant was guilty, but still had some doubts that seem reasonable, the appropriate vote would be for acquittal.
I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out how a reasonable person could vote someone like this into the highest office of the land.
Responding to the grand jury's refusal to indict the officers involved, Donovan noted that Garner's death was "tragic," and that there was "no reasonable cause to vote an indictment".
Given the fight over voter suppression in the 2012 Presidential campaign, there would seem to be a reasonable case that voting rights are not an exotic issue but a central one.
Arrow made a series of postulates that were so reasonable that every voting system should obey them, and then he proceeded to show that they were incompatible with each other.
Another appealing idea, the "American Plan," starts with small states and moves onto larger ones, so long-shot candidates can build momentum, but it does an especially good job of ensuring that voters from all states have a reasonable chance of voting early in the primary season.
