Overview of More Inclusive and Effective Voting Procedures
* Book: The Punters' Guide to Democracy. P. Emerson. Springer, 2022
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Description
• "Discusses the multiple ways of voting in a democratic system
• Shows that binary decision-making is blunt, primitive, divisive, and sometimes inaccurate
• Highlights the more inclusive and effective voting procedures
This book discusses multiple ways of voting in a democratic system and explains the basis of more consensual politics. Without delving into too much technical argument or too many mathematical examples, it aims to show that binary decision-making is blunt, primitive, divisive, and sometimes inaccurate; prove that other methodologies are more accurate and, therefore, more democratic; highlight more inclusive and effective voting procedures; discuss electoral reforms for national parliaments and international forums like the UN Security Council and COP26/27. The book is written not just for academia, or for the politicians and journalists, or for other specialists; it is for the general public: for students still at school, for voters in society at large, and for activists in umpteen NGOs."