Voting Methods & Elections

Best of:

Different Voting Methods Produce Different—and More Accurate—Results [2023, ProMarket]

RCV Fools Palin Voters into Electing a Progressive Democrat [2022, CES]

Comparing Voting Methods: 2016 Presidential Election (2021, European Journal of Political Economy)

An Assessment of Six Single-Winer Voting Methods [2020, CES]

The Early 2020 Democratic Primary: Comparing Voting Methods [2020, CES]

Getting Proportional With Approval Voting [2020, CES]

The Limits of Ranked Choice Voting [2019, CES]

What Makes A Voting Method Good? [2018, CES]

Ten Critiques (And Defenses) On Approval Voting [2017, CES]

The Majority Illusion: What Voting Methods Can and Cannot Do [2017, CES]

What Is A Voting Method? [2017, CES]

Remembering Kenneth Arrow and His Impossibility Theorem [2017, CES]

Top 5 Ways Plurality Voting Fails [2015, CES]

How to Fix the Baseball Hall of Fame Elections [2014, Deadspin/Regressing]

Remainder:

So I Heard Your Candidate Lost [2024, Independent]

Alaska voters are limited even with 48-candidate field [2022, Juneau Empire]

Super Tuesday: Deep Voting Methods Dive [2020, CES]

Democratic Primary Gets Rare Glimpse at Sane Polling [2019, CES]

Making Approval Voting A Reality In US Elections [2017, CES]

Let the Giving Games Begin! [2017, CES]

Voting Methods: An Open Target for Effective Altruism [2017, CES]

2017 French Presidential Elections: Do They Do It Better? [2017, CES]

Honest Voters Had A Preference In 2016 [2017, CES]

Smarter Elections 2016: Approval Versus Plurality [2016, CES]

A Blueprint To Good Presidential Elections [2016, CES]

Maine’s Ranked Choice Voting: It’s Not Plurality [2016, CES]

Looking Closer at 10 Popular Reforms: Commentary on Freakonomics [2016, CES]

Bloomberg’s Decision Not To Run Is Democracy’s Dead Canary (Unedited Version) [2016, USA Today Magazine (Time To Stop The Plurality)]

Primaries: A Major Party Failure Is A Third Party Opportunity [2016, CES]

America’s Peculiar Primaries [2016, CES]

How the Academy Can Save Face With Better Elections [2016, Oped News)

Let Trump Run Independent If He Wants [2015, CES]

Your Nonprofit Can Make Smarter Group Decisions [2015, Nonprofit Pro]

Pollsters Struggle As Republicans Field Enough Candidates To Fill Two Baseball Teams [2015, CES]

Online Polls: The Internet Is Doing Them Wrong [2014, CES]

Approval Voting Breaks Duverger’s Law: Gives Voters More Options [2013, CES]

Approval Voting: A Voice for Independents [2012, CES]

Is Our Centuries-Old Ballot Out of Date? [2012, TNCP]

Interview with Nobel Laureate Dr. Kenneth Arrow [2012, CES] (Audio Download)

How I Came to Care About Voting Systems [2011, CES]

Philanthropy

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Contraceptive Technology

Interest Among U.S. Men for New Male Contraceptive Options [2019, MCI]

Modeling the impact of novel male contraceptive methods on reductions in unintended pregnancies in Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States [2018, Contraception]

Getting Male Birth Control To Market [2017, MCI]

The Contraceptive Hot Hand [2017, MCI]

Why We Do Male Contraceptive Marketing Research [2017, MCI]

Contraceptive Pregnancy Rates Just Dropped: Here’s What That Means For You [2017, MCI]

Male Contraceptives Will Stay Absent from Obamacare [2017, MCI]

Male Contraception Initiative Announces Request for Proposals [2017, MCI]

Male Contraception Begs for a Paradigm Shift [2016, MCI]

Two Contraceptives Are Better Than One [2016, MCI]

How Do You Evaluate the HEX Condom? [2016, MCI]

Searching for Katharine McCormick [2016, MCI]

Is It Time for a Vasectomy? [2016, MCI]

3 New Male Contraception Options That Go Beyond The Condom [2016, Bust Magazine]

Will Men Take The Pill? Research & Game Theory Say Yes [2015, MCI]

Condoms Are Here To Stay Even With A Male Pill [2015, MCI]

10 Myths On Male Contraception Debunked [2015, MCI]

The Male Pill Is Coming—And It's Going To Change Everything [2015, The Telegraph]

A Sparse History of Male Contraception [2015, MCI]

Choosing Contraception Based on Effectiveness [2014, OBOS]

The Next Condom Is Ogling Your Bedroom Drawer [2014, MCI]

You Probably Don’t Understand Contraceptive Pregnancy Rates [2014, MCI]

What are Some Methods for Preventing Pregnancy? [2014, Quora]

Reframing the Presentation of Contraception Pregnancy Rates: Integrating Long-Term Planning and Dual Methods [2010, SSRN (Download)]

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