November 2007 The Institute and nef (the new economics foundation) have received a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust in order to test the potential of consensus voting, otherwise known as a Modified Borda Count.
At the first seminar in this research, held in Oxford in Oct 2007, the attached ‘de Borda’ paper was presented: More… (84kb Word Doc) As part of that seminar, the participants took part in a little exercise, first choosing the options and then casting their preferences on those options, on the subject of the Westminster electoral system.
The analysis of the subsequent voters’ profile is here More... (128kb Word Doc)
March 2005 The Institute recently gave a demonstration
of electronic multi-option preference voting to the Policy
and Resources Committee of Belfast City Council.
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December 2004 An open letter to Mark Durkan published
on the 21st December 2004 in the Irish News noting
the inevitable dichotomies emerging from the Belfast agreement.
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November 2004 New article published in the International Third
World Studies, Journal and Review, published by the University
of Nebraska. More...
November 2004 Electing Or Selecting An Executive? Article published in the latest
issue of Fortnight magazine on selecting a new Northern
Ireland Executive. More...
26 November 2004 Letter to Guardian,
Director's perspective on the current Ukrainian stand-off
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September 2004
The Euro Election: another predictable outcome?
Different countries have different rules in relation to how
the state media should cover election campaigns. And in comparison
to most European countries, the UK operates a rather odd system
of 'fairness', as seen in this article in Fortnight. More...
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Belfast Agreement is up for review. All the parties
are meeting in Leeds Castle in Kent, to try and iron out some
of the difficulties… many of which were foretold in
an article published by this Institute, albeit under a pseudonym,
in the June 1998 edition of Fortnight. More...
Deborda launches blog page
Read and comment on new items from deborda. More..
Free and Fair Elections in Northern
Ireland?
In an article in Fortnight, May 2004, Peter Emerson compares
the appalling electoral law in use in Northern Ireland with
the fairer rules laid down for other countries. See also www.fortnight.org
Decision-Maker CD-rom
The de Borda Institute is pleased to announce a new facilitation
package called ‘Decision-maker’. The software
will facilitate any group, from local committee to national
parliament or full electorate, to take a collective decision
on any issue, no matter how controversial. Read
more...
The on-line preferendum
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...
OurKingdom, the new economics foundation and the de Borda Institute recently gave interested parties from think tanks, research groups and campaigning organisations, and members of the general public, the opportunity to participate in an online trial of consensus decision making.
The de Borda Institute and nef (the new economics foundation) have received a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to test the potential of consensus voting More...
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