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Please see here for some background on the director.  And this is a Youtube presentation by Phil Kearney on decision-making.

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.

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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. 

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FAQ on Inclusive Voting Procedures > What is a Preferendum? > If there are a number of areas requiring decisions on, for example, a sports’ club committee agenda, should each decision be made by preferendum, and who should vote, the elected committee or each mem

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The question of who takes which decisions are normally enshrined in a written constitution.

And a constitution, and constitutional amendments, are definitely things which should not be subject to a yes-or-no majority vote: how big should the committee be? what length of service should be taken as a maximum? what should be the membership fees? – all of these matters are multi-optional and are best resolved in a preferendum.

Last updated on September 19, 2008 by Deborda