Conference: “Why do we vote?”

Thursday, October 19, 2017, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Charles Flahault Amphitheater – Institute of Botany

Launch of the second edition of the UM Thursdays : " Why do we vote? by Nicolas Saby, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science
The decision-making processes involved in the choices made by political representatives are essential to the life of a democracy. This conference will examine the role of elections and seek to highlight new possible avenues for collective decision-making.
The second half of the 20th century was marked by significant and surprising advances in the fields relevant to collective choice: game theory, information theory, and decision theory. It is no longer a question of condemning poor choice procedures, but rather of constructing more robust ones that better reflect the collective "will."
The beginning of the 21st century shows that new procedures are very promising and likely to raise different questions about politics, power, and democracy.
The presentation "Why do we vote?" given by Nicolas Saby, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Faculty of Science, will be an opportunity to introduce these new alternative procedures: value voting, majority judgment, and methods based on rating principles.

UM Thursdays

The University of Montpellier, with its eight faculties, two schools, and six institutes, boasts a wealth of teachers andProfessors a wide variety of fields of study. It wanted to showcase them and make them accessible to as many people as possible by offering a unique series of lectures, with one event per month from October 2017 to May 2018.