Voting theorist

This page is to keep track of various lists of voting theorists.

Manually generated lists

This is a partial list of persons who significantly contributed to the development of voting theory.

• Kenneth Arrow- Discoverer of Arrow's impossibility theorem
• Duncan Black- Discoverer of Black's theorem.
• 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
• Peter Fishburn- A leading proponent of approval voting. He and Brams commonly work together.
• Allan Gibbard- A discoverer of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem.
• Thomas Hare- Discoverer of single transferable vote.
• Ramon Llull- A discoverer of the Borda count and Condorcet method.
• Mark Satterthwaite- A discoverer of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem.
• Donald Saari- A leading intellectual proponent of the Borda count.
• Robert J. Weber- The scholar credited with coining the term "approval voting" to refer to approval voting in the early 1970s.

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

Category:Voting theorists

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The list above is an incomplete list of voting theorists who are documented on electowiki (or English Wikipedia). Please see Category:Voting theorists for the list of articles on electowiki about voting theorists, or see Category:Voting theorists for the dynamically-generated list on English Wikipedia.