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The de Borda Institute has links with the
following organisations; they fall into several categories.
The de Borda Institute has made a positive
link between the decision-making process which follows any
debate, and the structure of the debate itself. Others have
concentrated on the latter, and they include:
http://zeno8.gmd.de
http://www.groupsystems.com
http://www.sztaki.hu/services/voting
Improvements in electronic decision-making
can be seen on:
http://www.e-democracy.org/do
For information on all referendums, wherever
they have been, can be found on: http://c2d.unige.ch
Northern Ireland
District
Council Election in Belfast
Every Country In The World
http://www.electionworld.org
A good reference for electoral systems world
wide is the Stockholm based Institute for International “Institute
for Democracy and Electoral assistance” or IDEA:
www.idea.int
Another is the UK ’s Electoral Reform
Society
http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
And a third in the US based International
Foundation for Electoral Systems:
http://www.ifes.com
The World’s leading authority on voting
systems is the Society for Social Choice and Welfare and its
journal of that name is published by Springer under
http://link.springer.de
and/or www.springer.de
A leading political scientist in this field,
Professor Arend Lijphart, runs his own web-site on: http://dodgson.ucsd.edu/lij/
Finally, elections are often monitored by
national and international organisations such as:
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation
in Europe , OSCE
http://osce.org
and its off-shoot, the Office for Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights
http://www.osceprag.cz/inst/odihr/odihr.htm
One of the national organisations in the UK
is ERIS, Electoral Reform International Services: http://www.eris.org.uk
while in the Republic of Ireland it is APSO,
the Agency for Personnel Service Overseas www.apso.ie
The New Ireland Group, which seeks to create a peaceful island
with no borders either on land or in the mind:
www.newirelandgroup.com
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
is currently considering, inter alia, whether or not to include
democratic rights in its proposals for a reformed Human Rights
Charter: www.nihrc.org
A local organisation devoted to democratisation is
www.democracy-konjic.org
The Centre for European Policy Studies, based in Brussels
, produces regular news-sheets http://www.ceps.be
The International Crisis Group, ICG, publishes
many regular and specific reports: www.crisisweb.org
Groups And Political Parties Associated With Multi-Option
Decision-Making
www.greenparty.ie
www.newirelandgroup.com
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