CPNSS Voting Power in Practice lectures, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Michel Balinski
Chair: Rudolf V Fara
Update, Tuesday 17 March: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the venue for this event has now changed to the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House.
Balinski presents an introduction to Majority Judgement, a new voting model that proposes a solution to many of the pressing problems confronting representative democracy and its various current electoral systems.
Michel Balinski is director of research at CNRS and the Econometrics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and co-author with Professor Rida Laraki of One Value One Vote: measuring, electing and ranking (Forthcoming, 2009) in which the theory of majority judgement is developed.
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