What's the best voting system?
2024 is the biggest election year in history. From Taiwan to India, the USA to Ghana, by the end of the year almost half of the world\u2019s population will have had the chance to choose who governs them.\n \nBut there are a huge number of possible voting systems \u2013 and listener James wants CrowdScience to find out which is the fairest.\n \nTo do so, we create a fictional country called CrowdLand to try out different electoral systems. Presenter Caroline Steel consults mathematician David McCune and political scientists Eric Linhart and Simon Hix, and we hear from listeners around the world about how they vote in their respective countries. Can we find the perfect voting system for CrowdLand?\n \nContributors:\nProf David McCune, William Jewell College, USA\nProf Eric Linhart, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany\nProf Simon Hix, European University Institute, Italy\n \nActors:\nCharlotte Bloomsbury\nRoss Virgo\n \nPresenter: Caroline Steel\nProducer: Florian Bohr\nEditor: Cathy Edwards\nProduction Co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano\nStudio Manager: Donald MacDonald
(Image: Hand of a person casting a vote into the ballot box during elections, Thailand Credit: boonchai wedmakawandvia Getty Images)