DeBorda InstituteDeBorda Institutehttp://www.deborda.org/home/2012-05-12T21:11:18ZSquarespaceThe Matrix Votehttp://www.deborda.org/home/2012/5/12/the-matrix-vote.htmlDeborda2012-05-12T21:08:35Z2012-05-12T21:08:35ZWe're doing another experiment on the matrix vote: it's at the PSAI postgraduate conference in Maynooth on Sat 23rd June, and it's all here.]]>Video of Defining Democracy launchhttp://www.deborda.org/home/2012/3/10/video-of-defining-democracy-launch.htmlDeborda2012-03-10T10:16:57Z2012-03-10T10:16:57ZYoutube video of the House of Lord launch of Defining Democracy with Lord Ashdown. And here's what I said at the Belfast launch: http://audioboo.fm/boos/740716-peter-emerson-talking-after-launch-of-his-book-on-decision-making-voting-procedures]]>President Michael D Higginshttp://www.deborda.org/home/2012/2/12/president-michael-d-higgins.htmlDeborda2012-02-12T18:21:56Z2012-02-12T18:21:56ZOn Friday 10th February in Áras an Uachtaráin, Peter Emerson presented Michael D Higgins, the President of Ireland, with a copy of his latest work, Defining Democracy. The delegation included members of both the de Borda Institute and the New Ireland Group, as seen here.
]]>The Ashgate Research Companion to Warhttp://www.deborda.org/home/2012/1/27/the-ashgate-research-companion-to-war.htmlDeborda2012-01-27T16:58:19Z2012-01-27T16:58:19ZThe above anthology includes one chapter from the de Borda Institute: Majority rule - a cause of war? The book is due to be published in February. See www.ashgate.com]]>Scotland's Referendumhttp://www.deborda.org/home/2012/1/27/scotlands-referendum.htmlDeborda2012-01-27T16:47:09Z2012-01-27T16:47:09ZBoth the British and the Scottish Governments have published papers on the proposed referendum. Both want either one and/or two majority votes. Neither talk about preference voting. So we have responded: this one is to Edinburgh, and here's the London one.]]>DEFINING DEMOCRACY - launchhttp://www.deborda.org/home/2011/12/20/defining-democracy-launch.htmlDeborda2011-12-20T15:19:07Z2011-12-20T15:19:07ZDefining Democracy was launched in the House of Lords on Tues. 31st January 2012 by Lord Paddy Ashdown, Lord Mike Boyce, Prof. Elizabeth Meehan and Tommy Sands. The book is now on-line at
"An extraordinary and quite remarkable conucopia indexof available [voting] systems." Paddy Ashdown.
]]>The original Borda count and partial votinghttp://www.deborda.org/home/2011/10/17/the-original-borda-count-and-partial-voting.htmlDeborda2011-10-17T12:46:12Z2011-10-17T12:46:12Zand it's available online on
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k476366236x10402/]]>Polish Green Networkhttp://www.deborda.org/home/2011/8/25/polish-green-network.htmlDeborda2011-08-25T19:24:50Z2011-08-25T19:24:50ZFood and Democracy - edited by Marcin Gerwin and published by the Polish Green Network. And here it is.]]>Defining Democracy, 2nd editionhttp://www.deborda.org/home/2011/6/22/defining-democracy-2nd-edition.htmlDeborda2011-06-22T19:35:05Z2011-06-22T19:35:05ZSpringer is scheduled to publish a second and much expanded edition of Defining Democracy later this year. Here is the flyer. The book is scheduled to be available on-line and in hard copy in December, 2011.]]>The latest on the Matrix Votehttp://www.deborda.org/home/2011/6/20/the-latest-on-the-matrix-vote.htmlDeborda2011-06-20T14:27:45Z2011-06-20T14:27:45ZI presented a paper to the EPSU conference in Dublin on why the matrix vote is so important, and here it is. It includes a modification to the ideas published in Voting Matters No 29, and this improvement is in this brief extract.]]>
