Publications
Deborda has published a number of books. Several of them are available directly from the Institute. We list those which are currently available below.
You can find out about out of print material and publications in other countries here.
Current publications from Springer-verlag:
Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy
Consensual Voting Procedures for Use in Parliaments, Councils and Committees
(Peter J Emerson (Ed), Springer-Verlag, (136k pdf More...) with a foreword from Professor Sir Michael Dummett, and contributions from Professors Christine Bell, Elizabeth Meehan, Hannu Nurmi and Maurice Salles, amongst others.
ISBN 3-540-33163-8, hardback, approx 250pp
e-mail orders to SDC-bookorder@springer.com
The book received the following review in Fortnight magazine from Andy Pollak.
Coming Shortly
Party Politics in the Western Balkans, ed by Vera Stojarová and Peter Emerson, Routeledge, is due to be published on 1.10.2009.
Current publications from the de Borda Institute:
Books
Defining Democracy, Decisions, Elections and Good Governance, 2002.
From Belfast to the Balkans, Was Democracy Part of the Problem? 2000
Beyond the Tyranny of the Majority, 1998,
The Politics of Consensus, 1994,
Consensus Voting Systems, 1991
Conference (and other) Reports
Majoritarianism or Democracy? 1999
Preferendum Social Survey, 1998
Avoiding the Veto, 1998
Where Lies the Compromise? 1995
{The following refer to cross-community conferences which took place before the cease-fire.}
Power-Sharing, 1993
The Other Talks, 1991
People's Conventions, 1986 (no longer in print; copies available in the Linenhall Library, Belfast)
Other Publications
Northern Ireland
A Political Cycle, 2000
Having first visited the Soviet Union in 1984, under Chernenko; having lived in Moscow in 1986 and from 1988 to 1990; having been published in Moscow News and Novy Mir (New World), in the latter alongside Alexandr Solzhenitsyn; and having travelled extensively in European Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans, there was a story to tell.
Bosnian Perspective, 1993
This describes the author’s experiences when he travelled across Bosnia, twice, in winter and in war, on a bicycle... if but to say on his return to Northern Ireland that majoritarianism doesn’t work in the Balkans either.
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 MBC or 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
