Peter Emerson is the director of The de Borda Institute (http://www.deborda.org/), a Northern Ireland-based NGO, which aims to promote the use of inclusive voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice.
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Published in: HomeMy 350 on BREXIT: The will of the people“All the wars in the former Yugoslavia started with a referendum.”
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInclusive decision making systems are a must for any UK constitutional conventionBinary yes-no voting is a plague on democracies. We should and can do much better. Here's how.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe EU referendum - what is the question though?Cameron will almost certainly opt for the least democratic question - a simple yes no, just as he did on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIf parliament be hung...?What do coalition governments around the world tell us about the possible logistics of a hung parliament after 7 May?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe 2015 general election in Britain - free and fair?Majoritarian voting systems and parliaments are a terrible way to govern pluralist societies - here are some simple...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMajoritarianism - the beginning of the end?Instead of simple 'yes no' voting, the Borda Count and Condorcet allow much greater precision in drawing out the...