The Democracy Science series (all free from Smashwords) and all my other books (some edited from below web pages) may be obtained in epub format from my Smashwords profile page.
Liberating democracy from Impossibility Theorem.
Binomial STV and the Harmonic Mean quota.
The Four Loves: romance, friendship, affection and charity. (From C S Lewis)
Sigmund Freud and CG Jung:
seeking the whole man thru a democracy of ones selfs.
The moral sciences as the ethics of scientific method.
Science is ethics or "electics."
A synthesis of deterministic & statistical world-views.
Relativity theory and election method.
The determined dishonesty of atomic energy.
Nuclear deterence threatens its own world war crime.
Index to some early (unrevised) pages in simpler English spelling.
En français: (In French)
Modèle Scientifique du Procès Electoral. (Scrutin Transferable: Single Transferable Vote.)
(largely obsolete pages, since my book, Statistical Relativity Elections).
Getting Ideas: How I dreamt my life away
and survey of this site. (However, this was before the e-book age and my
more recent findings.)
Simpler English spelings Home page of some early versions to these pages. (More consistent than conventional English, tho superseded by my later spelling reforms.)
Relegated pages (junk-yard).
(Down-loading the Calibre program enables reading e-books in many formats.)
came out of copyright, 70 years after his death. Wells might have been dismayed to find that he is still ahead of his time, not least on electoral reform. The first part of "FAB STV:..." appreciates his contribution to electoral knowledge, amongst other discussions of his writings, scattered in my books.
I have edited and published his main writings on "sane voting" in one substantial book (linked on my Smashwords page, linked at top of this home page): The Angels Weep: H.G. Wells on Electoral Reform.
A bibliography with quotes also includes minor references by Wells on proportional representation and economic representation: World peace thru democracy: HG Wells neglected third phase.
(After many years, this site has been released from its former host, and now finds a home here.)
Wikipedia has a Dorothy Cowlin biography.
Just over two hundred years ago, the three times great grand-father of David Hill, programmer of the Meek method algorithm, wrote the first known voting rules using a quota-preferential method.
1819 marks the first recorded use of proportional representation, using the transferable voting principle, invented by Thomas Wright Hill. for electing the committee of a Society for Literary and Scientific Improvement in Birmingham.. More information can be found from The STV Action website: STV Action.
The remarkable fact is that electoral science has not followed the exponential growth of other sciences. Steady advances, after Hill, were made in the 19th century, by Carl Andrae, and Thomas Hare, Herman Droop, JB Gregory and Inglis Clark. But in the previous hundred years, the outstanding contribution may be by Brian Meek.
A sense of scientific progress seems to have been widely lost from voting
method. Since at least the mid-twentieth century, cynicism and negativity have
prevailed against the improvement of representative democracy, pioneered by
Hare and Mill, more than one and a half centuries ago.
Voting method is not a fashion statement. Or, as HG Wells said: It is not a
matter of opinion but a matter of demonstration.
April 2020.
e-mail: voting[at]ukscientists[dot]com
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This Democracy Science site began in Spring 1999 at a former venue.