Lecture: “Why Do We Vote?”

Thursday, October 19, 2017, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 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 in the Faculty of Sciences
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 identify new possible avenues for collective decision-making.
The second half of the 20th century was marked by significant and surprising advances in fields related to collective decision-making: game theory, information theory, and decision theory. The goal is no longer simply to condemn flawed decision-making procedures, but rather to develop more robust ones that better reflect the collective “will.”
The early 21st century shows that new approaches are very promising and have the potential to shed new light on political issues, the nature of power, and democracy.
The presentation “Why Do We Vote?” by Nicolas Saby, Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Faculty of Sciences, will serve as an opportunity to introduce these new alternative procedures: value voting, majority judgment, and methods based on rating principles.

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The University of Montpellier, with its eight faculties, two schools, and six institutes, is home to a wealth of instructors andProfessors a wide variety of fields of study. The university sought to highlight their work and make it accessible to as many people as possible by offering a unique lecture series, with one event per month from October 2017 to May 2018.