Duncan Black

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Duncan Black (May 23, 1908 - January 14, 1991) was responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson, and was responsible for the Black electoral system, a variant upon the Condorcet method whereby, in the absence of a Condorcet winner (e.g. due to a cycle), the Borda winner is chosen. He was born in Motherwell, Scotland, raised in Tayvallich in Argyll Scotland, then educated at Glasgow, Scotland and Dundee, Scotland.

See also: Median Voter Theory, Public choice theory

[edit] References

• Black, Duncan (1948). "On the Rationale of Group Decision-making". Journal of Political Economy 56: 23-34. 
• _____ (1958), The Theory of Committees and Elections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bernard Grofman, "Black, Duncan," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 1, pp. 250-51.