Voting theorist
This page is to keep track of various lists of voting theorists.
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
- 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.
- Allan Gibbard- A discoverer of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem.
- Sean Graham - Discoverer of Dual member proportional
- Thomas Hare- Discoverer of single transferable vote.
- Ramon Llull- A discoverer of the Borda count and Condorcet method.
- Brian Olson - Discoverer of Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings
- Toby Pereira - A discoverer of the Kotze-Pereira transformation and PAMSAC
- 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.
- Markus Schulze - Discoverer of the Schulze method and Schulze STV
- Warren Smith - Early proponent of Score voting and discoverer of Harmonic Voting
- Robert J. Weber- The scholar credited with coining the term "approval voting" to refer to approval voting in the early 1970s.
- Douglas R. Woodall - Leading developer on the concept of Free riding
- Ka-Ping Yee - Discoverer of Yee diagram
- H. P. Young - Co-discoverer of the Balinski–Young theorem
Manually generated lists
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Category:Voting theorists
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.