Friday
Oct182019
2019-29 Sarajevo book launch
Friday, October 18, 2019 Thursday 24th Oct, Obala Kulina Bana 39, The Network for Building Peace, 18.99-1930, (in English).
Vienna TEDx Talk - October 2017
Here's the YouTube, the PowerPoint, and the text of the speech (more or less).
Friday, October 18, 2019 Monday
Oct072019
Launched in Leiden, Brussels, Sarajevo, Tbilisi
Monday, October 7, 2019 Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism (Springer, Heidelberg), was/will be launched in:
i) Leiden on 10th Oct in Oranjerie 14;
ii) Brussels on 14th Oct in EEB, Rue de Deux Églises 14;
iii) Sarajevo on Thu 24th Oct in the Network for Building Peace, Obala Kulina bana 39, 18.00-19.30; and
iv) Tbilisi, on Nov 7th in the Caucasus International University; (more details later).
Friday
Oct042019
2019-28 A talk for the Open Future Festival
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
Oct022019
2019-27 A 4th book from Springer (Heidelberg)
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'.
It was/is/will be launched:
on 10th Sept in Brighton
26th Belfast
11th Oct Leiden
14th Brussels
24th Sarajevo
7th Nov Tbilisi, and
12th Moscow.
Thursday
Sep192019
2019-26 Letter in The Guardian, 19 Sept.
Thursday, September 19, 2019 Maybe we are nearly all partly right — Labour, Lib-Dem, Green et al, including some honest Tories. Maybe the mistake is the notion that a non-binary problem can be solved by a binary vote. However, as Pliny the Younger pointed out in 105 AD, in a multi-option debate, if there is no majority for any one thing, there is a majority against every single thing.
So, on complex issues, votes in parliament, referendums, party conferences, etc., should be multi-optional and, ideally, preferential.
Wednesday
Sep042019
2019-25 Rights (and Wrongs) of Majority Rule
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 http://www.scirp.org/Journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=94818 has just been published in the Beijing Law Review.
Monday
Aug192019
2019-24 A letter in the Irish Times
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
Jul052019
2019-23 Participatory Budgeting
Friday, July 5, 2019 https://pbnetwork.org.uk/what-is-democracy-anyway-why-voting-systems-matter-in-participatory-budgeting/
Tuesday
Jul022019
2019-22 The Economist; & now The Ecologist
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Change our decision-making systems, and you change the world. It's in The Ecologist
https://theecologist.org/2019/jul/02/preferential-voting-and-political-consensus
Sunday
Jun162019
2019-21 The Economist: Open Future Festival
Sunday, June 16, 2019 5.10.2019 in Manchester, and the de Borda Institute is on the panel.
https://events.economist.com/events-conferences/emea/open-future-festival-manchester/
