From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 06:11:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Global Strategic Structure - Speculative
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At 11:20 pm -0500 on 11/24/97, Jim Choate wrote:



>   - a binary system is stable provided each individual party is stable.

Nit:
    - it is hypothesized that the reason that the US has a "binary",
two-"party" system is because of it's "winner-take-all" electoral system.
Proportional representation yields a multiplicity of "parties" up to some
multiple of the "party acceptance" threshold, as a percentage of the
electorate...

;-).

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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