Saturday
May122012
The Matrix Vote
Saturday, May 12, 2012 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.
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
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 Saturday
Mar102012
Video of Defining Democracy launch
Saturday, March 10, 2012 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
Sunday, February 12, 2012 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
Friday, January 27, 2012 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
Friday, January 27, 2012 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.
