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 uncovered methods.
• 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:

• wikipedia:List of game theorists
• wikipedia:List of political scientists
• wikipedia:List of political theorists

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