Conference "Why do we vote?

Thursday, October 19, 2017 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Charles Flahault Amphitheatre - Botany Institute

Launch of the second edition of the UM Thursdays : " Why do we vote?" by Nicolas Saby, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science
The decision-making processes involved in choosing political representatives are essential to the life of a democracy. This conference will question the role of elections, and seek to show new ways in which collective choice can be made.
The second half of the twentieth century saw significant and surprising progress in the fields concerned with collective choice: game theory, information theory and decision theory. The aim is no longer to condemn bad choice procedures, but rather to build more robust ones that better reflect the collective "will".
The beginning of the 21st century shows that new procedures are very promising, and are likely to raise new questions about politics, power and democracy.
The presentation "Why do we vote?" by Nicolas Saby, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Faculty of Science, will introduce these new alternative procedures: value voting, majority judgment or methods based on rating principles.

UM Thursdays

The University of Montpellier, with its eight faculties, two schools and 6 institutes, is teeming with teachers andProfessors in the most varied fields of study. It wanted to highlight them and make them accessible to as many people as possible by offering a new cycle of lectures at the rate of one appointment per month from October 2017 to May 2018.