Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

27 August 2024

0:52 - 1:15: "first past the post" voting, 44 countries in the world using it.
1:48: In the last a hundred years, there were 21 times a single party held a majority of the seats in the British Parliament, but only two of those times did the majority of the voters actually vote for that party.
4:03: Duverger's Law
5:21: instant runoff, or preferential voting or ranked-choice voting.
8:39: Jean-Charles de Borda
10:13: Ramon Llull and Condorcet
12:20: Kenneth Arrow
14:12: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
19:03: Duncan Black, rated-voting systems