Voting theorist

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 Weber- The scholar who coined the term approval voting.

List

See the "Voting theorists" article on electowiki for a list of the lists of voting theorists.