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Peter Emerson,
The de Borda Institute,
36 Ballysillan Road,
Belfast BT14 7QQ,
Northern Ireland
Tel: +44 (0)28 9071 1795
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Publications

Deborda has published several books. Several of these are available directly from the Institute. Please email for more details.

Northern Ireland
Defining Democracy, Decisions, Elections and Good Governance, 2002. More...

From Belfast to the Balkans, Was Democracy Part of the Problem? 2000 More...

Beyond the Tyranny of the Majority, 1998, More...

The Politics of Consensus, 1994, More...

A Bosnian Perspective, 1993, More...
This is a short booklet describing the author’s experiences when he travelled across Bosnia, twice, in winter and in war, on a bicycle, if only to say on his return that majoritarianism doesn’t work there either.

Consensus Voting Systems, 1991, More...

Preferendum Social Survey, 1998 More...

Published abroad

Bosnia (in English)

Reconstructing Multiethnic Societies: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2000
Published by Ashgate Publishers in English and retailing at £39.50, this details the papers presented to the Conference for Strengthening Democracy held in 1999 in Konjic, Bosnia. It includes a treatise given by the director of The de Borda Institute on the Borda preferendum and its relevance to a multi-ethnic society.

Germany (in German)
‘Mediation fur die Praxis’, 1998

‘Konsens’, 1999

‘Frieden auf Raten’

Russia (in Russian)
‘Pravo I Vlast’, (The Power and the Law), Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1990

Ukraine (in English)
Magisterium (Politichni Studii) No 10, 2002: Democracy - The Most Undefined Word in the World

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Online Consensus

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.

You can sign see the whole debate

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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