Voting theorist

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Voting Theorists
This is a non-exhaustive list of persons who significantly contributed to the development of voting theory.
 * Kenneth Arrow- Discoverer of Arrow's impossibility theorem
 * Joseph M. Baldwin- Discoverer of Baldwin's method
 * Michel Balinski- Co-discoverer of the Balinski–Young theorem
 * Duncan Black- Discoverer of Black's method.
 * Jean-Charles de Borda- A discoverer of the Borda count
 * Steven Brams- The leading intellectual proponent of approval voting
 * Marquis de Condorcet- A discoverer of the Condorcet method
 * Partha Dasgupta - Researcher of the robustness and strategic susceptibility of majority rule, Borda, and Condorcet, with Maskin.
 * Henry Richmond Droop
 * Keith Edmonds - Discoverer of Sequentially Spent Score, Single distributed vote and STLR voting
 * Peter Fishburn- A leading proponent of approval voting. He and Brams commonly work together.
 * Michael Gallagher - created the Gallagher index
 * Allan Gibbard- A discoverer of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem.
 * Sean Graham - Discoverer of Dual member proportional
 * Thomas Hare- Discoverer of single transferable vote.
 * Aanund Hylland - Researcher of free riding, in particular Hylland free riding.
 * John G. Kemeny - Discoverer of the Kemeny-Young method (with Peyton Young). Also known for co-developing BASIC.
 * Jan Kok - Developer of Mechanical Addition. He also founded the Center for Range Voting jointly with Warren Smith in 2005.
 * Ramon Llull- A discoverer of the Borda count and Condorcet method.
 * Eric Maskin - Contributor to the foundations of mechanism theory, and researcher of the robustness of majority rule (with Dasgupta).
 * Kristofer Munsterhjelm - Discoverer of fpA-fpC and the DMTBR-Condorcet-Reversal symmetry impossibility proof.
 * Jack Nagel - Penn professor and former Approval proponent, first to use the term "Burr dilemma".
 * Brian Olson - Discoverer of Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings.
 * Toby Pereira - A discoverer of the Kotze-Pereira transformation and PAMSAC
 * Lars Edvard Phragmén - Developed Phragmen's voting rules
 * Jameson Quinn - Discoverer of PLACE voting
 * Mark Satterthwaite- A discoverer of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem.
 * Donald Saari- A leading intellectual proponent of the Borda count.
 * Forest Simmons - Discoverer of the voting method class of sequential pairwise elimination, proponent of methods that elect from the uncovered set.
 * Markus Schulze - Discoverer of the Schulze method and Schulze STV.
 * Matthew Shugart - Researcher of empirical implications of voting methods, non-proportional and proportional representation (with Rein Taagepera).
 * Piotr Skowron - Discoverer of the Method of Equal Shares and an expansion of Justified representation to score ballots
 * Alex Small - Researcher of classes of voting systems passing the favorite betrayal criterion using geometric win region analysis.
 * Warren Smith - Early proponent of Score voting and discoverer of Harmonic Voting.
 * Rein Taagepera - Researcher of influence of voting methods on party size, other empirical implications of voting methods (with Matthew Shugart).
 * Nicolaus Tideman - Discoverer of CPO-STV, Ranked pairs, and Tideman's alternative.
 * Thorvald N. Thiele - Discoverer of sequential proportional approval voting
 * Robert J. Weber- The scholar credited with coining the term "approval voting" to refer to approval voting in the early 1970s.
 * Douglas Woodall - Researcher of free riding, in particular Woodall free riding. Also known for discovering the Descending Acquiescing Coalitions, Descending Solid Coalitions, and QLTD voting methods; and for defining a number of monotonicity criteria.
 * Ka-Ping Yee - Discoverer of Yee diagram
 * H. P. Young - Co-discoverer of the Balinski–Young theorem
 * Peyton Young - Discoverer of the Kemeny-Young method (with John G. Kemeny) and of Young's method.

Manually generated lists
Note, there are other manually-generated lists that may have more useful information:
 * List of game theorists
 * List of political scientists
 * List of political theorists

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