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electoral reading list
2017-10-17 - This is a crude electoral reform and electoral justice reading list, some of which I wrote and need to update:
The Global Fight For Electoral Justice: A Primer by Erik Moeller (2016-12-18) -- as he puts it: "A primer to prepare anyone to engage in electoral justice efforts, written from a US perspective and looking at global reform efforts."
This is a well-deserved potshot at those of us wonk-o-nerds who know what Arrow's Theorem is. The explainxkcd.com article for 1844 does an excellent job providing a newcomer summary to the issues.
Here's an unofficial reprint an article I wrote for The Perl Journal in 1996 explaining Duverger's Law, with some dead links in it. The material (unfortunately) highlights current day problems: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol1_3/tpj0103-0002.html
A more recent article I wrote in 2002 for the now defunct website Kuro5hin (in some ways the reddit of its day; Daily Kos started off using Kuro5hin's software). I got a lot of upvotes and had a really robust conversation thread https://web.archive.org/web/20030812091133/http://www.kuro5hin.org:80/story/2002/2/17/23347/8051
A much more contemporary article published a couple of weeks ago by Michael Baumann about the NFL/Kaepernick fury, and how it relates to Duverger's Law - https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2017/9/26/16365282/protest-debate-colin-kaepernick-alejandro-villanueva-police-brutality
The Ringer Only One Side of the NFL Protest Debate Is Worth Listening To When Colin Kaepernick first sat down during the national anthem, he was protesting a specific kind of injustice. Everything else is just noise.
Here's a link to an organization that is advocating alternatives to our awful First-Past-the-Post election system: http://electology.org/ There is also a bigger and more popular organization that is also advocating alternatives (and deserves credit for San Francisco using Instant Runoff): http://www.fairvote.org/
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