Borda count

The Borda count is a voting system used for single-winner elections in which each voter rank-orders the candidates.

External links

• The de Borda Institute, Northern Ireland
• The Symmetry and Complexity of Elections Article by mathematician Donald G. Saari shows that the Borda Count has relatively few paradoxes compared to certain other voting methods.
• Article by Alexander Tabarrok and Lee Spector Would using the Borda Count in the U.S. 1860 presidential election have averted the american Civil War? (PDF)
• Article by Benjamin Reilly Social Choice in the South Seas: Electoral Innovation and the Borda Count in the Pacific Island Countries. (PDF)
• A Fourth Grade Experience Article by Donald G. Saari observing the choice intuition of young children.
• Consequences of Reversing Preferences An article by Donald G. Saari and Steven Barney. (PDF)
• Rank Ordering Engineering Designs: Pairwise Comparison Charts and Borda Counts Article by Clive L. Dym, William H. Wood and Michael J. Scott. (PDF)
• Arrow's Impossibility Theorem This is an article by Alexander Tabarrok on analysis of the Borda Count under Arrow's Theorem. (PDF)
• Article by Daniel Eckert, Christian Klamler, and Johann Mitlöhner On the superiority of the Borda rule in a distance-based perspective on Condorcet efficiency. (PDF)
• On Asymptotic Strategy-Proofness of Classical Social Choice Rules An article by Arkadii Slinko. (PDF)
• Non-Manipulable Domains for the Borda Count Article by Martin Barbie, Clemens Puppe, and Attila Tasnadi. (PDF)
• Which scoring rule maximizes Condorcet Efficiency? Article by Davide P. Cervone, William V. Gehrlein, and William S. Zwicker. (PDF)
• Scoring Rules on Dichotomous Preferences Article mathematically comparing the Borda count to Approval voting under specific conditions by Marc Vorsatz. (PDF)
• Condorcet Efficiency: A Preference for Indifference Article by William V. Gehrlein and Fabrice Valognes. (PDF)
• Cloning manipulation of the Borda rule An article by Jérôme Serais. (PDF)
• Democracy and Social Choice: A Response to Saari Article by Mathias Risse.(PDF)
• Cooperative phenomena in crystals and social choice theory Article by Thierry Marchant. (PDF)
• A program to implement the Condorcet and Borda rules in a small-n election Article by Iain McLean and Neil Shephard.(PDF)
• The Reasonableness of Independence Article by Iain McLean.(PDF)
• Variants of the Borda Count Method for Combining Ranked Classifier Hypotheses Article by Merijn Van Erp and Lambert Schomaker (PDF)
• Selecting Committees Article by Thomas C. Ratliff.
• Flash animation by Kathy Hays An example of how the Borda count is used to determine the Most Valuable Player in Major League Baseball.