Chapter 1. AI, Artificial Incompetence – The Ubiquitous Use of Binary Voting -- Chapter 2. Oh Lord, Give Me Consensus, but not Yet – Pluralism is Possible -- Chapter 3. The Art and Science of Compromise -- Chapter 4. The GOAT is a GNU – Electing an All-party Power-sharing Executive --...

Observing legislator's voting behavior plays a crucial role in the parliamentary process, both in terms of representation and in terms of accountability. When a MP votes either for or against a proposal, and so for or against his party' s policy line, this action can be observed by both voters...

We introduce a democratic procedure with voting-based proposals called ”Pendular Voting”. It works as follows: An agenda-setter chooses a proposal meant to replace a given status quo. In the first stage, a random sample of the population votes on the proposal. The result is made public,...