This is exactly the type of problems that mathematicians have tried to solve
I am not sure this is a mathematical problem. Generally speaking, giving a minority the veto power trades off minority safety against government ability to do things. In the limit you have decision making by consensus which has obvious problems.
quadratic vote buying
What do you buy votes with? Money? Then it's an easy way for the blue people to first take orange people's stuff and then, once the orange people run out of resources to buy votes with, to kill them anyway.
Generally speaking, giving a minority the veto power trades off minority safety against government ability to do things. In the limit you have decision making by consensus which has obvious problems.
That's precisely why it is a mathematical problem... you need to quantify the tradeoffs, and figure out which voting schemes maximize different value schemes and utility functions. Math can't SOLVE this problem because it's a ought problem, not an is problem.
But you can't answer the ought side of things without first knowing the is side.
In terms of quadrat...
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