If you want to skip ahead and find out how the Condorcet system works, it’s all laid out in the first three…
In my last two posts I explained two of my favourite voting systems. The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a system…
The basic idea of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) is that each person should contribute…
Editor’s note: This piece originally came out for Himal magazine in February 2014. The editors did a very good job with it, but they did decide to take out a couple of the jokes — but leave in the punchlines! I therefore think it reads slightly oddly. So here’s the original.
Edit: this list is pretty out of date now, I keep the one on my website up to date.
Other articles I have written:
Asian Affairs — “Are the reasons for the failure of statebuilding in Afghanistan specific to the country or characteristic of South Asia more…