Hannu Nurmi
PhD
hnurmi@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9918-6014 |
Areas of expertise
voting systems, electoral systems, social choice theory, applied game theory, preference modeling, decision theory
voting systems, electoral systems, social choice theory, applied game theory, preference modeling, decision theory
Biography
Hannu Nurmi received his doctorate in 1974 at University of Turku, Finland. He was an Associate Professor of Methodology of Social Sciences in University of Turku 1974 - 1995. Thereafter he became the chair holder of Political Science in the same university until his retirement in 2012. During the academic year 1972-73 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1978 Nurmi held a British Academy Wolfson Fellowship at University of Essex and from 1991 till 1996 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences in University of Turku. In 1998 he was a Visiting Professor at University of Minnesota. Nurmi was nominated the Academy Professor of Academy of Finland for the period 2003-2008. He is a member of Academia Scientiarum Fennica (the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters) from 1982. From 2008 till 2011 he was the Director of Centre of Excellence in Public Choice Research of University of Turku. From 2012 he is Professor Emeritus in the same university. In May 2018 Åbo Akademi University bestowed the degree of Politices Doctor Honoris Causa upon him. Nurmi is the author or co-author of 14 scholarly books (the most recent one, Systems, Procedures and Voting Rules in Context: A Primer for Voting Rule Selection, Springer Nature Switzerland 2019, written together with Adiel Teixeira de Almeida and Danielle Costa Morais) and a co-editor of 6 books. He has published well over 200 articles in scholarly outlets ranging from economics, philosophy and political science to operations research and fuzzy systems. Currently Nurmi serves on the editorial board of several journals. He has written referee reports to about 50 different journals.
Hannu Nurmi received his doctorate in 1974 at University of Turku, Finland. He was an Associate Professor of Methodology of Social Sciences in University of Turku 1974 - 1995. Thereafter he became the chair holder of Political Science in the same university until his retirement in 2012. During the academic year 1972-73 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1978 Nurmi held a British Academy Wolfson Fellowship at University of Essex and from 1991 till 1996 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences in University of Turku. In 1998 he was a Visiting Professor at University of Minnesota. Nurmi was nominated the Academy Professor of Academy of Finland for the period 2003-2008. He is a member of Academia Scientiarum Fennica (the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters) from 1982. From 2008 till 2011 he was the Director of Centre of Excellence in Public Choice Research of University of Turku. From 2012 he is Professor Emeritus in the same university. In May 2018 Åbo Akademi University bestowed the degree of Politices Doctor Honoris Causa upon him. Nurmi is the author or co-author of 14 scholarly books (the most recent one, Systems, Procedures and Voting Rules in Context: A Primer for Voting Rule Selection, Springer Nature Switzerland 2019, written together with Adiel Teixeira de Almeida and Danielle Costa Morais) and a co-editor of 6 books. He has published well over 200 articles in scholarly outlets ranging from economics, philosophy and political science to operations research and fuzzy systems. Currently Nurmi serves on the editorial board of several journals. He has written referee reports to about 50 different journals.
Research
voting and social choice, applied game theory, preference modeling, nonexperimental causal analysis
voting and social choice, applied game theory, preference modeling, nonexperimental causal analysis
Teaching
voting theory, preference modeling, nonexperimental causal analysis, applied game theory
voting theory, preference modeling, nonexperimental causal analysis, applied game theory
Publications
- Systems, Procedures and Voting Rules in Context: A Primer for Voting Rule Selection (2019) Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - The no-show paradox under a restricted domain (2019)
- Homo Oeconomicus
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Voting Procedures Under a Restricted Domain. An Examination of the (In)Vulnerability of 20 Voting Procedures to Five Main Paradoxes (2019) Dan S. Felsenthal, Hannu Nurmi
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - Monotonicity violations by Borda's elimination and Nanson's rules: A comparison (2018)
- Group Decision and Negotiation
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Optimaalinen edustus käsitteellisenä ongelmana (2018) Valta ja politiikka - Ilkka Ruostetsaaren juhlakirja Nurmi Hannu
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Reflections on two old Condorcet extensions (2018) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXI Nurmi Hannu
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Voting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate. Proving Their (In)Vulnerability to Various Voting Paradoxes (2018) Dan S. Felsenthal, Hannu Nurmi
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - Voting theory: cui bono? (2018)
- Politeia
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - An Overview and Re-interpretation of Paradoxes of Responsiveness (2017) Soft Computing Applications for Group Decision-making and Consensus Modeling Nurmi Hannu
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Choosing a Voting Procedure for the GDSS GRUS. (2017) Group Decision and Negotiation Palha R.P., Zarate P., de Almeida A.T., Nurmi H.
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate (2017) Dan S. Felsenthal, Hannu Nurmi
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - Reason vs. rationality: From rankings to tournaments in individual choice (2017) Transactions in Computational Collective Intelligence XXVII Janusz Kacprzyk, Hannu Nurmi, Slawomir Zadrozny
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Reforming democracy: Comment on "Proposals for a Democracy of the Future"by Bruno Frey (2017)
- Homo Oeconomicus
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - The introduction and development of fuzzy sets theory and applications in Finland (2017)
- Archives for the Philosophy and History of Soft Computing
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Using Similarity and Dissimilarity Measures of Binary Patterns for the Comparison of Voting Procedures (2017) Granular, Soft and Fuzzy Approaches for Intelligent Systems. Janusz Kacprzyk, Hannu Nurmi, Slawomir Zadrozny
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Vaalimenettely ja äänestämisen hyöty äänestäjälle (2017) Poliittinen osallistuminen. Vanhan ja uuden osallistumisen jännitteitä Hannu Nurmi
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Mitähän professori Riker sanoisi tänään? – Politiikan teorian ja sosiaalisen valinnan jälleennäkeminen (2016) E pluribus unum. Scripta in honorem Eerik Lagerspetz sexagesimum annum complentis Hannu Nurmi
(Book chapter (B2)) - Mitä vikaa Granger-kausaliteetissa? (2016) De natura rerum. Scripta in honorem professoris Olli Koistinen sexagesimum annum complentis Hannu Nurmi
(Book chapter (B2)) - On the Relative Unimportance of Voting Weights: Observations on Agenda-Based Voting Procedures (2016) Institutional Design and Voting Power in the European Union Nurmi H
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - On types of responsiveness in the theory of voting (2016)
- Operations Research and Decisions
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))