CVD studies how voting systems affect participation, representation and governance; focusing on proportional representation for legislative elections, instant runoff voting for single winner elections ...

The International Foundation for Election Systems provides professional advice and technical assistance in promoting democracy and serves as an information clearinghouse on democratic development. IFES is dedicated to the success of democracy worldwide and the prospect that each person in every corner of the world is entitled to have a free and informed say in how he or she is governed. IFES ...

Caltech David Baltimore R. Michael Alvarez Erik Antonsson Jehoshua Bruck Thomas Palfrey MIT Charles Vest Stephen Ansolabehere Stephen Graves Nicholas Negroponte Ronald Rivest Ted Selker Charles Stewart January 24, 2002 letter from members of VTP to Senators Dodd, McConnell, Bond, Schumer and Torricelli concerning S.565 July 2001 Report of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project: Voting - What ...

A source of information on proportional representation elections -- including beginning readings, in-depth articles by scholars and activists, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to related Web sites. This site has been created by Professor Douglas J. Amy, Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College. PR Library is for citizens, activists, politicians, students and anyone else who wants to ...

Homepage of the Proportional Representation Society of Australia ...

Instant Runoff.com educates the American public about Instant Runoff Voting.

Elections in Malta under the Single- transferable-vote (STV) System, 1921 - 2000 ...

Our purpose is to educate and inform the public about the gross inadequacy of our current election method and the major benefits of a better alternative. Our current plurality system has entrenched us into a two-party duopoly without effective competition from other parties. A simple expansion of voting rights can give voters badly needed additional choices. Check us out and begin to understand ...

The original and most comprehensive web page related to Approval Voting ...

What is Proportional Representation May 2002 Nearly all elections in the United States are based on the winner-take-all principle: voters for the candidate who receives the most votes win representation; voters for the other candidates win nothing. This system is unjust and unnecessary. It is unjust because it leaves minorities unrepresented with a resulting impact on majority rule as well as ...

Miscellaneous things that interest Rob Lanphier-Politics, Emacs, Perl, Electoral Reform, etc....

Washington State Citizens for Proportional Representation ...

Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster ...

This game teaches the Single Transferable Vote rule for elections.

In PEGS Newsletter 3, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 10-14. Approval Voting and the Good Society Steven J. Brams _____________________________________________________________ Steven J. Brams is professor of politics at New York University. He is co-author, with Peter C. Fishburn, of Approval Voting (1983) and author of the forthcoming Theory of Moves (1993).

Various papers on a new electoral system called PR-Squared ...

The Third Culture | Home | Edge Editons | The Reality Club | Third Culture | Digerati | Edge Search | Biography The Reality Club one-click printer friendly version Edge 78 HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS (OR WHY PERFECT ELECTIONS SHOULD ALL END IN TIES) By W. Daniel Hillis Many people believe that democracy works by giving voters a chance to elect a candidate whose views match their own. Actually, this ...

Declared-Strategy Voting: An Instrument for Group Decision-Making Abstract The goal of this research is to determine whether declared-strategy voting (DSV) can be an effective tool for group decision-making. DSV is a novel group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies--first-order mathematical functions that specify a choice in terms of zero or more ...

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) exists to nurture, sustain and promote democracy around the world. Global in membership and scope, independent of specific national interests, and quick in its response, International IDEA is an intergovernmental organization with a unique mandate - to support the growth of genuine, sustainable democracy.

SIAM News Quick Search: How did Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura defeat the major-party candidates in 1998 Moving beyond some of the common explanations, voting theorists take a hard look at plurality-based election systems--- the only procedure, according to Donald Saari, that will elect someone who's despised by almost two-thirds of the voters. Making Sense Out of Consensus Dana Mackenzie How ...

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