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Line 5: He conceived and developed with others "[[Biproportionality]]" that has been adopted (as of 2014) in five of Switzerland's cantonal elections. His 2010 book with Rida Laraki<ref>https://sites.google.com/site/ridalaraki/</ref> proposes a new theory and method of voting called [[majority judgment]]. Majority Judgment is a [[Cardinal voting systems]] where majorities determine society's evaluation of each candidate and thereby its rank-ordering of them all. This, they prove, overcomes the most important drawbacks of the traditional theory of voting (including [[Arrow's impossibility theorem]]).<ref name="informs-awards">[https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Michel-L-Balinski INFORMS award recipients: Michel L. Balinski], retrieved 2013-11-27.</ref> Another system invented by Balinski is ''[[Fair majority voting'']]. It is a is a [[Biproportionality \| biproportional apportionment]] method with single-member regions called "districts", so each district has exactly one representative. It was proposed in 2008 as a way to eliminate the power of [[gerrymandering]], especially in the United States.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Balinski\|first=Michel\|date=2008-02-01\|title=Fair Majority Voting (or How to Eliminate Gerrymandering)\|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2008.11920503\|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly\|volume=115\|issue=2\|pages=97–113\|doi=10.1080/00029890.2008.11920503\|issn=0002-9890}}</ref> ==References== [[Category:Voting theorists\|Balinski]]