Jump to content

Voting matters

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Smasongarrison (talk | contribs) at 12:11, 26 April 2023 (Moving from Category:Publications established in 1994 to Category:Academic journals established in 1994 using Cat-a-lot). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Voting matters
DisciplinePolitical science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byBrian Wichmann (1994–2010), Nicolaus Tideman (2010–)
Publication details
History1994-present
Publisher
McDougall Trust (United Kingdom)
Yes
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Voting matters
Indexing
ISSN1745-6231
OCLC no.498736040
Links

Voting matters was a peer-reviewed academic journal whose purpose is "To advance the understanding of preferential voting systems". Originally published by the Electoral Reform Society (1994–2003), Voting matters then became a publication of the McDougall Trust until April, 2013. The journal's founding editor-in-chief (1994–2010) was British mathematician and computer scientist Brian Wichmann, followed by Nicolaus Tideman.

The majority of Voting matters papers dealt with the single transferable vote (STV) preferential voting system. The journal has also republished several seminal papers on STV by Thomas Hare, Henry Richmond Droop, and Brian Meek. Other papers, such as "Four Condorcet-Hare Hybrid Methods for Single-Winner Elections", dealt with hybrid voting methods that partially incorporate STV.