Democracy Science.

For theories of love, political economic democracy, and an all-purpose electoral system...

About this site.

Home page:

• The Four Loves: Romance, friendship, affection and charity.
  ( Based on C S Lewis. )
• World peace thru democracy: H G Wells' neglected third phase.
• Constitutional Economics.
• The Second Chamber Of Science ( an 'economic parliament' ).
  
• Second Chamber reform:
  a review of the Royal Commission on the House of Lords: the Wakeham report.
• Open letter to the joint committee on Lords reform.
• Plutocracy and Bureaucracy, or Democracy?
• A default government pushes more nuclear power pollution. (25 july 2006)
• Big Business leads New (for Nuclear) Labour to pollute the future (26 july 2007).
• The Nuclear Vested Interest and a Nuclear Winter.
  The need to build up the constitution's immune system against parasite politics. (2 feb. 2008).

• Foul! Referee electoral system abuse.
• The Two Cultures and electoral lawlessness in Britain by the turn of the twenty-first century.
• Against the Jenkins Report.
• British Columbia chooses a voting system.
• Citizens Assemblies of Canada choose a voting system.
• STV elections, not single member exclusions nor list appointments.
• Ontario Citizens Assembly and due process for future assemblies.
• "One Ballot. Two Votes." as a premature report: Two Wrongs dont make One Right. (Ontario CA's "Democracy At Work" also reviewed.)
• Power in the European Union and English regions ( with Sir David Steel's Edinburgh lecture ).
• Count-down to UK referendum on the general elections system. From june 2000...

• Scientific method of elections:
  How To Do It.
  How Not To Do It .
• A Criticism Of The Plant Report. Interim report's omission of the case for STV.
• The Kerley report on Scottish local democracy.
• The Sunderland report on Welsh local elections.
• Authority lets down the Arbuthnott report: Not "putting citizens first" for Scotland's parliament.
  The Richard Report, on the Welsh Assembly, compared.
• Does the Power commission give more "Power to the People" than to the parties?
• Choice Voting America? (1) Turn-out and primaries. (2) Against corporatism.

• Simple examples of how to conduct an election by the single transferable vote. And Meek's method.
• Former reforms: Reversible STV and the Re-transferable Vote.
• Binomial STV: 1st and 2nd order counts.
• Further example and development of First and Second order Binomial STV counts (for 5 seats).
• The same 1st and 2nd order Binomial STV example for 7 seats.
• Seven seat example supplemented by Condorcet group-pairing.
• Keep-value Averaging (Binomial and Condorcet counts of) Transferable Voting.
  Reply to criticism of conventional STV.
• Keep-value averaged STV answer to apology for anarchy of voting methods.
• The Ross quota and cross-constituency PR.

• Origins of UK internet elections and STV computer counts.
• When knowledge fails belief: referendums.
• A death penalty referendum in the context of social violence.
• War games politics censor knowledge thru free enquiry.
  Why do we never learn anything from history?
  (Continuing electoral reform as a case study of war games.)
• Max Weber's work ethic and my student mistakes.
• The moral sciences as the ethics of scientific method
• Physics and freedom.
• Kompromis speling: a fonetic compromise with English spelling.
• English Spelling Priorities: the ESP alfabet.
• Measurement of language and logic.

Popular science:

• The Special Theory of Relativity.
  Part One: The Michelson-Morley Experiment and the Lorentz transformations.
  Part two: The Minkowski Interval and the Lorentz transformations.
  Part three: The Lorentz transformations.
• A statistical basis for special relativity
• Basic concepts of mechanics and elections.
• Electoral model of special relativity.
• The laws of motion and election.
• Lorentz transformations of geometric means.
• Dispersion formulas and the Interval as the common geometric mean.
• Special relativity paired with Transferable Voting.
• Statistical prediction of the Michelson-Morley experiment.
• Statistics of space-time and the Equivalence principle in the Michelson-Morley experiment.
• Probabilistic Space-time and time's arrow.
• Mach's principle applied to Mathematics and Special Relativity, and a Caldera model of the Cosmos.

• A measure of evolution. Diffusion equation of natural selection and elections.
• Scientific theories and methods modeled on natural selection.
• Conditioning and instinct.
• Commentary On W W Sawyer's A Path To Modern Mathematics.
  ( 1 ) Fibonacci series and damped wave equation.
  ( 2 ) Circular function and wave equation.
  ( 3 ) Coupled oscillator and wave equation.
• The diffusion equation as a finite difference equation.
• Laplace's equation, the diffusion equation, as finite difference equations in two dimensions, or more.
• Statistical Differentiation and the geometric mean derivative.
• Penrose dodecahedrons:
  (1) in preference permutations.
  (2) 'electorally' interpreted.

Reviews.

• William Lovett's Chartism.
• Jill Liddington: Rebel Girls.
• 'How the banks robbed the world.'
• The political system fails the eco-system.
• The amateur lawyer and open source software.
• The sixth extinction.
• Four women scientists who should have won nobel prizes.
• Julian Barbour: The End Of Time.
  In classical physics (1) triangle land; (2) geometric dynamics.
  In quantum mechanics (1) making waves; (2) quantum cosmology.
• Murray Gell-Mann: The Quark and the Jaguar.
• Brian Greene: The Elegant Universe.
  (1) Super-strings. (2) Hidden dimensions.
• Lee Smolin: Three roads to quantum gravity.
• Lee Smolin: the trouble with physics.

Above table of contents with some descriptive subtitles.

Verse corner

• Exotic energy.
• Three satires for democracy:
  (1) The Radioactivists;
  (2) Nato secretly knew of Stalin's last war;
  (3) The corporate state.
• "Atoms for peace"; atoms for war.

Archives.

• Solon's law-giving, and Pericles' funeral oration on the principles of Athens.
• Seneca: on anger.
• Bolingbroke and Thiers on corruption and financial scandal.
• H A Taine: The old regime in France.
• Chief Seattle: from a letter to the American President ( 1855 ).
• Henry Adams: The Eyrie Railway scandal.
• From John Stuart Mill's letters: proportional representation, and other issues.
• J W N Sullivan's summary review of Albert Einstein's Relativity.
• H G Wells: For Freedom of Spelling.
• A Declaration of the Rights of Man. ( Sankey declaration, 1940. )
  A Charter of Scientific Fellowship ( 1942 ).

En français: ( In French )

Modèle Scientifique du Procès Electoral.

Index to some above pages in simpler English spelling.

Links to other sites.

March 2008.

This site began in Spring 1999 at a former venue.