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.
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.
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
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, 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.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Defining Democracy will be launched in the House of Lords on Tues. 31st January 2012. All being well, speakers will include Lord Paddy Ashdown, Lord Mike Boyce and Prof. Elizabeth Meehan. The book is now on-line at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-20904-8#section=997930&page=1&locus=25
Monday, October 17, 2011 Thursday, August 25, 2011 