Electoral Engineering

This page collects work by Mark C. Wilson and collaborators aimed at studying election algorithms for (representative) democracy, with the ultimate aim being to find methods that are ``the best" (or at least not clearly not the best!).

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Publications

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Slides for talks

• Where are the best parliamentary election methods?
  CSD Lunchtime Seminar, UC Irvine, 2015-02-23.
• Electoral engineering via simulation
  UC Davis Political Science Department seminar, 2013-05-22; UC Irvine IMBS Seminar, 2013-04-26.
• 2011 referendum options simulator
  CMSS Seminar University of Auckland 2011-08-23.

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Software

• My C++ code for electoral system simulation on Github
• The 2011 referendum options simulator

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Data sources

Electoral laws and results

• IFES Election Guide
• Constituency-Level Elections Archive at U.Michigan
• PARLINE from Inter-Parliamentary Union
• ACE Electoral Knowledge Project

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Studies

• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
• American National Election Study
• NZ Election study
• British election study
• Canada election study

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General

• Fruits and Votes (Matthew Shugart)

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