The Scottish Referendum

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
Peter Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Preferential Vote ◽  
Voting Procedures

And the winner was… devo-max. It was not on the ballot paper; it received just a handful of spoiled votes; but it won. So maybe the two-option, yes-or-no ballot was not the most appropriate decision-making methodology. Rather, a three-option poll might have been the catalyst for a more subtle debate and a more accurate outcome, while a preferential vote on five or six options could have catered for even more sophistication. Accordingly, this article questions the decision to restrict the 2014 referendum to two options. Next, it asks what might have happened if a three-option ballot had been held. It then compares what could happen under different voting procedures before advocating a more inclusive structure. And lastly, consideration is given to multi-option referendums, both in Scotland and abroad.

scholarly journals USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN VOTING AT THE GENERAL MEETING OF PARTICIPANTS (SHAREHOLDERS’) BUSINESS ENTITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
E. V. Elnikova
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Voting Procedures ◽  
The Right ◽  
Corporate Legislation

The article deals with issues related to the exercise of the right to participate in the General meeting of participants (shareholders) of economic companies through the use of digital technologies. The Russian corporate legislation provides for the possibility of voting at the General meeting using electronic means. The conclusion is made that it is necessary to expand the dispositive regulation, which provides corporations with more opportunities to determine the directions necessary for them to implement new technologies. The advantages of using electronic voting forms in joint-stock companies with a large number of shareholders are considered. The risks associated with the use of digital technologies when voting at the General meeting are highlighted. Attention is drawn to the need to develop ways to ensure the evidence base for the Commission member of the Corporation’s actions by voting in electronic form. It was suggested that the introduction of digital technologies in the voting procedures at the General meeting of participants (shareholders) leads to a gradual leveling of the differences between decision-making in face-to-face and absentee voting.

Voting Procedures: A Summary Analysis

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannu Nurmi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Majority Rule ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Simple Majority ◽  
Simple Majority Rule ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Voting Procedures ◽  
Marquis De Condorcet ◽  
Condorcet Paradox

Roughly two centuries ago the Marquis de Condorcet and Chevalier Jean-Charles de Borda originated a research tradition – by no means a continuous one – that over the decades has produced results casting doubt on many widely used collective decision-making procedures. The phenomenon known as the Condorcet effect or the Condorcet paradox is the well-known problem of the simple majority rule. The paradox bearing the name of Borda is less commonly known, but it also relates to a procedure that is widely used, namely the plurality principle. Either one of these paradoxes is serious enough to make these procedures suspect unless one is convinced that the situations giving rise to these paradoxical features are extremely rare. In this article we review some voting procedures that have been introduced in the literature. We aim at giving a synthesis of the assessments of procedures with respect to various criteria.

In Praise of Manipulation

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEITH DOWDING ◽  
MARTIN VAN HEES
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Choice Functions ◽  
Social Choice Functions ◽  
Voting Procedures ◽  
Strategy Proofness

Many theorists believe that the manipulation of voting procedures is a serious problem. Accordingly, much of social choice theory examines the conditions under which strategy-proofness can be ensured, and what kind of procedures do a better job of preventing manipulation. This article argues that democrats should not be worried about manipulation. Two arguments against manipulation are examined: first, the ‘sincerity argument’, according to which manipulation should be rejected because it displays a form of insincere behaviour. This article distinguishes between sincere and non-sincere manipulation and shows that a familiar class of social choice functions is immune to insincere manipulation. Secondly, the ‘transparency’ argument against manipulation is discussed and it is argued that (sincere or insincere) manipulation may indeed lead to non-transparency of the decision-making process, but that, from a democratic perspective, such non-transparency is often a virtue rather than a vice.

scholarly journals An Investigation into Educational Decision-Making in a Centralized Education System: Governance Principles and the Case of National Education Councils (Şûras)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Toprak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
National Education ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Educational Decision ◽  
Voting Procedures ◽  
Education Decision ◽  
Educational Decision Making ◽  
Shed Light

This study aims to investigate how national education councils are organized inTurkey, shed light on their voting procedures, and examine their perceived chal-lenges, based on data from eight participants of the 18th National Education Council.A qualitative research design was adopted and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. By scrutinizing a particular decision-making convention in acentralized system, the study offers significant evidence on education decision-mak-ing and contributes to the existing body of literature on education decision-makingin accordance with governance principles.

scholarly journals Research on the Application of Blockchain Technology in the Field of Corporate Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 01064
Author(s):  
Liyuan Meng ◽  
Shaodong Xing
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
New Technology ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Shareholder Voting ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Voting Procedures ◽  
The Cost

The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders is considered to be a boring and mandatory annual ceremony. At present, its information, forum, decision-making functions, and voting procedures are all flawed. As a new technology, the introduction of blockchain can greatly reduce the cost of shareholder voting and company organization costs, improve the company’s decision-making efficiency and the transparency of voting and elections, and effectively solve the problems existing in the current annual general meeting of shareholders. The research in this paper provides an intelligent solution for the traditional inefficiency of corporate governance.

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