During the 6th International Electoral Affairs Symposium 2013, Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, representing the International Center for Electoral Psychology (ICEP), presented a breakthrough approach to election administration. Using the lenses of Electoral Ergonomics, the researchers demonstrated a psychological viewpoint of voting which adds even more complexities to the art of election administration. Electoral Ergonomics is defined ...
Among the various forms of government, democracy is arguably the most desirable as it is the least repressive, least prone to abuse, and is ostensibly the freest. Conventional thought places Greece as the birthplace of democracy. It therefore comes as a surprise for many that the earliest manifestations of democratic principles have been observed in such ...
Is the US electoral college violating a time-honored principle? For  people  with only a passing knowledge of US elections, the whole idea of an electoral college is a source of puzzlement.  How in the world is it possible for a candidate who loses in the popular vote to still win the presidency?  Why is it that ...