Re: Voting: a game theory look
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I don't see how knowing AND TRUSTING (which is another assumption of yours) that most people will not abide erradicates incentive in the event that...
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Your friend Bob elects himself King. Do you genuflect and start paying him taxes?
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Can you define the current state of this world? I took OP's post to assume we had a couple of candidates, known countrywide, and a complete and sudden disdain/lack of faith in the election process. From this I presume a small, but sizable population actually vote for the candidates. I don't vote for Bob, I vote for one of the candidates. I don't presume I will be the only one to doubt with certainty the committment of the voters to abstain, or the ability of the elected with exsiting infrastracture to force the will, no matter how small, upon the people.
Are you imagining the desert island economics example?
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