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Welcome to the home page of the De Borda Institute, a Northern Ireland-based organisation 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. Contact details are listed below.

Online Consensus!!

OurKingdom, the new economics foundation and the de Borda Institute recently gave interested parties from think tanks, research groups and campaigning organisations, and members of the general public, the opportunity to participate in an online trial of consensus decision making.

You can sign see the whole debate

Aims of the Institute
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. The appropriate methodology is the Borda count or rather, its modernised form, the "Borda preferendum".

Questions of social choice also concern elections and electoral systems. Many of the latter are adversarial, pitting either a majority or the largest minority against the rest (as in first-past-the-post), or one quota against the other (as in PR-STV). In consensus voting, the Quota Borda System (QBS), the voter is able to vote for a number of persons in his/her order of preference (as in PR-STV), and proportionality is maintained; the difference lies in the fact that all preferences cast are taken into account, and the success of any one candidate may often depend on the opinions (preferences) of all the constituents.

Inclusive Voting Procedures

There are three of them.

The Borda Preferendum: May be used whenever a decision is to be taken or a policy is to be adopted.

The Quota Borda System: This is an electoral system for the election of representatives, when, as in proportional representation, a number of persons are to be elected.

The Matrix Vote: This is also an electoral system and is used when a fixed number of persons is to be elected to the same fixed number of what are perhaps very different posts, as when an Assembly elects an executive or a parliament its cabinet.

You can find out more about these procedures here.

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Online Consensus

OurKingdom, the new economics foundation and the de Borda Institute recently gave interested parties from think tanks, research groups and campaigning organisations, and members of the general public, the opportunity to participate in an online trial of consensus decision making.

You can sign see the whole debate

The de Borda Institute and nef (the new economics foundation) have received a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to test the potential of consensus voting More...

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