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The de Borda Institute aims to promote the use of inclusive voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice.

This applies specifically to decision-making, be it for the electorate in regional/national polls, for their elected representatives in councils and parliaments, for members of a local community group, for members of a company board, for members of a co-operative, and so on.

Please see here for some background on the director.  And this is a Youtube presentation by Phil Kearney on decision-making.

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The director alongside the statue of Jean-Charles de Borda, capitaine et savant, in l’École Navale in Brest, 24.9.2010. Photo by Gwenaelle Bichelot. 

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Welcome to the home page of the de Borda Institute, a Northern Ireland-based international organisation (an NGO) which aims to promote the use of inclusive voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice. For more information use the menu options on the left or feel free to contact the organisation's headquarters. If you want to check the meaning of any of the terms used, then by all means have a look at this glossary.

And download these documents for an overview of some of the many decision-making and electoral systems

What's New?

Saturday
May122012

The Matrix Vote

We're doing another experiment on the matrix vote: it's at the PSAI postgraduate conference in Maynooth on Sat 23rd June, and it's all here.

Saturday
Mar102012

Video of Defining Democracy launch

Youtube video of the House of Lord launch of Defining Democracy with Lord Ashdown.  And here's what I said at the Belfast launch: http://audioboo.fm/boos/740716-peter-emerson-talking-after-launch-of-his-book-on-decision-making-voting-procedures

Sunday
Feb122012

President Michael D Higgins

On Friday 10th February in Áras an Uachtaráin, Peter Emerson presented Michael D Higgins, the President of Ireland, with a copy of his latest work, Defining Democracy.  The delegation included members of both the de Borda Institute and the New Ireland Group, as seen here.

Friday
Jan272012

The Ashgate Research Companion to War

The above anthology includes one chapter from the de Borda Institute: Majority rule - a cause of war?  The book is due to be published in February.  See www.ashgate.com

Friday
Jan272012

Scotland's Referendum

Both the British and the Scottish Governments have published papers on the proposed referendum.  Both want either one and/or two majority votes.  Neither talk about preference voting.  So we have responded: this one is to Edinburgh, and here's the London one.