CPNSS Voting Power in Practice lectures, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust
Date: Friday 20 March 2009
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Michel Balinski
Chair: Professor Maurice Salles
Balinski argues that, although the new Majority Judgement voting system is not perfect, approval voting fails in theory and practice, and that Majority Judgement is better than Condorcet's and Borda's classical proposals, point-summing methods, first-past-the post and others.
Michel Balinski is Director of Research at CNRS and the Econometrics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and co-author with 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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