Talk:Majority rule

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Some examples would be useful, as well as a good reference source or two. - David Oberst 22:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and also clarifying how the rule is supposed to operate (when there are more than two choices). At pages like Arrow's impossibility theorem it seems like "the majority rule" has a technical meaning on voting system research, but it isn't clear from this page what that meaning is. Kingdon 15:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Eberhard Wesche (talk · contribs), for expanding this. Some of the text at Arrow's impossibility theorem may need tightening, but this page is now in better shape. Kingdon 14:25, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

The whole article is quite unclear. Firstly there are many different expressions of Majority rule; plurality, supermajorities, simple majorities. Secondly, despite it's popularity in democracies there are serious problems with majority rule, I think any article should have a discussion of these. I know this post is quite negative, I promise to come back and help fix it! AleXd (talk) 03:10, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

As others have noted, this page needs thorough revision. In my opinion it should focus on majority rule as a binary decision rule and include information about May's theorem. Discussion of how majority rule relates to choosing one of three or more candidates should be put into a subsection, if at all. I'd be willing to revise the article myself, if I thought the changes would be welcome, but I'd feel awkward doing so, as I'm new here. SgtSchumann (talk) 01:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Having received no feedback about my proposal and surmising that there's still agreement that the whole article had problems, I've done what I said I'd feel awkward doing and made a thorough revision of the article. Though snippets of the previous draft can be found in the article, the only section that really remains the same is Voting on single issues and suboptimality. Most of the other sections were by and large unrelated to majority rule as a binary decision rule. (Majorities in the context of voting systems that choose from among three or more options are not directly relevant to majority rule.) SgtSchumann (talk) 01:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Majority rule and minority rights -- weak

just a comment, 171.64.71.23 12:35, 4 December 2007 (UTC)