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
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Proportionality without Transference: the merits of the Quota Borda System (QBS) is in the latest copy of Representation, Vol 46 No 2, July 2010: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2010.485820
Thursday, May 13, 2010 Exciting times, and the Guardian published this letter on 11th May.
Saturday, February 20, 2010 Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy, ed. Peter Emerson, Springer, 2007.
Don Saari has written a review for Social Choice and Welfare: it is on
http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/0530263282623016/fulltext.pdf
Friday, February 19, 2010 The above book, jointly edited by Věra Stojarová and Peter Emerson, is published by Routledge.
