| Deborda is involved in a number activities
locally in Northern Ireland but also in a number of other
countries. You can find out More... |
We also regularly publish discussion documents,
papers and articles in the Press. The following are published
online.
Letter to the press More...
This article was published in Representation, Vol 41, Number
4, 2005. (pdf) More...
Election day activity in Northern
Ireland's May 2005 Westminster and Local Council elections.
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A seminar in Konjic 2005 showing how a group of people can
come to a collective democratic decision, i.e., one which
caters for (almost) everyone. More...
Scotland will soon have four different election systems: 'first-past-the-post'
for Westminster elections, PR-list for the Euros, AMS for
the Scottish Parliament, and PR-STV for the 2007 local council
elections.
So the Arbuthnott Commission came to Ireland,
to see what people think of PR-STV, and at a formal sitting
on 31st March 2005, we presented our 'de Borda' submission.
More...
The war in Iraq has prompted many questions, but very few
have high-lighted the way the major powers use the two-option
majority vote as a way of manipulation, and the way the minor
powers, like Ireland, co-operate with this manipulation. Is
that because, when engaged in domestic politics, Irish politicians,
like so many others across the globe, are themselves engaged
in manipulation? More...
Article published in February 2005's Fortnight magazine
on the elections in Ukraine. More...
Article published in the International Third World Studies,
Journal and Review, published by the University of Nebraska,
November 2004. More...
There's more to any vote than just the voting procedure
of course, and on the basis of considerable experience in
covering elections abroad, Peter Emerson is aware that other
aspects of democratic structures, not least the role of the
state media in any election campaign, can have a deciding
influence on the outcome. The coverage of the BBC in NI elections
is a case in point, and this subject has now been covered
in Fortnight, Sept 2004. More...
Peter Emerson on the polling rules in Northern Ireland More...
There has been a lot of work in Northern Ireland on consensus
politics, since majoritarian votes, based on first choices,
are predictably divisive. In meetings, Peter Emerson has used
the de Borda preferendum as a tool to discover which options
get most consensus support. Others have used option ranking
and approval rating as a subtle opinion polling tool. Now
David Newman of the Queen's University of
Belfast has put the preferendum voting system online. Read
more...
'A Review of the Belfast Agreement from
the New Ireland Group' December 2003 More...
Reforming the Agreement - An article
published in the Belfast Telegraph on alternative voting options
for the Northern Ireland Assembly. More...
'Social and Economic Rights: Beyond the
Rhetoric'
A paper from the de Borda Institute and the New Ireland Group,
May 2002 More...
'Submission To The Northern Human Rights
Commission', Feb 2001 More...
'The Conduct of PR-STV Elections: The
Rules For The Count Are Unfair', Discussion document,
September 2000 More...
'The Balkans - And What's Next?' More...
'Towards A New Consensus Constitution'
More...
'Referenda Start Wars' More...
A Submission on the Abortion Question
to the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution
2000 (42K) Download...
‘Preferendum Social Survey’
1998 More...
E-consultation, 2001 More...
‘Majoritarianism or Democracy’
1999
‘Avoiding the Veto’ 1998
‘Where Lies the Compromise?’ 1995
‘Power-sharing’ 1993
‘The Other Talks’ 1991
People’s Conventions, 1986
Reforming the Agreement, Belfast
Telegraph, September 2003
Referenda start wars, Fortnight magazine,
2003
If Voting Changed Anything, Fortnight,
May 2001
Bosnia, Fortnight, March 2001
The Election: Possible Outcomes,
Fortnight, June 1998 (published under the pseudonym of Waldo
Ralph)
The Review on ‘Key’ Assembly
Decisions, Irish News, 11.12.2001
Response to the Abortion Referendum results,
The Editor, The Irish Times, 7th March 2002 .
Voters should have many options on abortion,
Irish Times, Friday, December 22, 2000
Multi-option ballot to choose text urged,
Irish Times, Thursday, May 18, 2000:
Time for multi-option voting system,
Irish Times, Friday, May 12, 2000
Azadliq, 11.3.1993
The Quota Borda System, Elections
‘Izbori’, No 7/2001
Not Only by the Majority, ‘Debaty’,
18.12.1990
The Mathematics of Democratic Agreement,
‘Maladyozh Gruzii’, 9.2.1990
(in Russian, with translations in English,
German, French etc.)
Consensus – Democracy without an
Opposition, Moscow News, 5.2.1989
Consensus, ‘Novy Mir’
No 3/90
Other articles have been published in Armenia,
Romania, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.
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