Brams

"It's silly to try out a bad system and then see its failures enacted," says Steven Brams , professor of politics at New York University who supports a different voting system, called approval voting, in which voters back as many candidates as they want.

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Brams and Richie disagree on which system should replace the current one.

Latest Issue on the Ballot: How to Hold a Vote Carl Bialik 2011

Brams has an idea of his own: what he calls the Next Two rule.

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Steven Brams, a political scientist at New York University, calls it "totally ad hoc," and adds, "If they want to engage in trial by error every year, I cannot stop them."

Plot Thickens on Oscar Ballot Carl Bialik 2012

Brams and instant runoff's leading advocate— Rob Richie , executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group FairVote—have been debating the merits of alternative voting systems for decades.

Latest Issue on the Ballot: How to Hold a Vote Carl Bialik 2011

As an alternative, Prof. Brams advocates approval voting, which tallies the number of voters who approve of each candidate and chooses the one with the most votes.

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And it has been promoted since the 70's by NYU's Steven Brams, one of the foremost experts in game theory and fair distribution schemes.

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In the film realm, Prof. Brams of NYU blames the current system for the best-picture victory of "Rocky" over films such as "Network" and "Taxi Driver" that he speculates would have won head to head.

And the Oscar Goes to...Not Its Voting System 2009

In a divorce case, some of the couple's properties may have to be sold, but both sides, Brams and Taylor say, get what they value most, not just what's financially fair.

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Brams 1990 demonstrated how it was possible to use mathematical game theory to reach an overall greater gain for each side if both sides were disputing the weighted importance of the various divisive issues.

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