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'''Douglas Woodall''' is a [[Psephology|psephologist]] born in November 1943 in [[w:Stoke-on-Trent, England]]. He studied mathematics at Cambridge, and earned his Ph.D. at Nottingham in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Extracts from D. R. Woodall's CV |url=https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/plp/pmadw/personal.html |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref> He devised the [[later-no-harm criterion]], a [[voting system criterion]] that is considered important in the [[comparison of electoral systems]]. Woodall has done a lot of work exploring the [[monotonicity criterion]]. He also invented [[Woodall's method]].
== Footnotes ==
* Woodall's homepage: https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/plp/pmadw/
* Note: Woodall's homepage may or may not have been created with Woodall's method
*Papers written by Woodall for [[Voting Matters]]:
*# Computer counting in STV elections Issue 1, p11-12 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE1/P3.HTM
*# Properties of Preferential Election Rules Issue 3, p8-15 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE3/P5.HTM
*# Monotonicity - An In-Depth Study of One Example Issue 4, p5-7 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE4/P5.HTM
*# Monotonicity and Single-Seat Election Rules Issue 6, p9-14 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE6/P4.HTM
*# QPQ, a quota-preferential STV-like election rule Issue 17, p1-7, PDF 92Kb https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE17/I17P1.PDF
== References ==
[[Category:Voting theorists]]▼
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