A BLOG
A blog: " De Borda abroad." From Belfast to Beijing and beyond... and back. Starting in Vienna with the TEDx talk, I go by bus and/or train for more debates in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Yerevan and Tehran, before flying - sorry about that - to Urumqi in Xīnjiāng, followed by more debates in Beijing, Tianjin, Hong Kong and Taiwan... but not in Pyongyang. Then back via Mongolia (where I was an election observer last year) and Moscow (where I worked in the '80s).
I have my little fold-up Brompton with me - surely the best way of exploring any new city! So I fly hardly at all; I go by train, boat or bus if possible, and then cycle wherever in each new venue; and all with just one plastic water bottle... or that was the intention!
The story is on: https://debordaabroad.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/de-borda-abroad/
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The Hospital for Incurable Protestants The Mémoire of a Collapsed Catholic This is the story of a pacifist in a conflict zone, in Northern Ireland and the Balkans. Only in e-format, but only £5.15. Available from Amazon. |
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.
Here's the YouTube, the PowerPoint, and the text of the speech (more or less).
Monday, November 11, 2019 The latest for PSAI. https://politicalreform.ie/2019/10/15/decisions-decisions-binary-or-multi-option-and-or-preferential-votes-by-peter-emerson-director-de-borda-institute/
Friday, November 1, 2019 Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism (Springer, Heidelberg), was/will be launched in:
i) Brighton, on 10th Sept, during the Conflict Research Society conference;
ii) Belfast on 26th, in the de Borda Institute;
iii) Leiden on 10th Oct in Oranjerie;
iv) Brussels on 14th in the European Environment Bureau;
v) Sarajevo on 24th in the Network for Building Peace;
vi) Tbilisi on 6th Nov in the Caucasus International University; and
vii) Moscow, soon, in HSE University, (more details later).
Friday, November 1, 2019 A presentation in the Senat (the Czech House of (elected) Lords) on 15th Sept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGWBJiZ-xY
And here's the corresponding talk and power-point presentation.
Friday, November 1, 2019 https://politicalreform.ie
Decision, decisions. Binary or multi-option and/or Preferential Votes.
Friday, October 4, 2019 The Economist: Open Future Festival, Manchester. IF THE PROBLEM ISN’T BINARY, DON’T USE BINARY VOTING Some questions can be pretty silly. If I ask.....
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783030202187
Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism is based on my journey from Belfast to Beijing and beyond, Sept. 2017 to Sept '18, and it talks of how majority voting and binary majority rule have been part of the problem, pretty well everywhere: in conflict zones like Belfast and the Balkans; in 'stable democracies' like the UK, as in Brexit; and even in communist countries like Russia - after all, the very word 'bolshevik' means 'member of the majority'.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 http://www.scirp.org/Journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=94818 has just been published in the Beijing Law Review.
Monday, August 19, 2019 Sir, – The Irish and British electoral systems are very different: PR-STV (a British invention) is one of the best. First-past-the-post (FPTP) is its extreme opposite. But we both have the same decision-making system: binary voting, one of the worst.
Friday, July 5, 2019 https://pbnetwork.org.uk/what-is-democracy-anyway-why-voting-systems-matter-in-participatory-budgeting/
