Hannu Nurmi
PhD, professor emeritus
Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science 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 
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- A. Tangian: Analytical theory of democracy: history, mathematics and applications, volumes 1 and 2, Studies in Social Choice and Welfare (2020)
- Journal of Economics
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Finnish-German Yearbook of Political Economy, Volume 2 (2019) (2020) Manfred J. Holler, Timo Airaksinen, Hannu Nurmi
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Foreword (2020) Democratic Decision-making. Consensus Voting for Civic Society and Parliaments Hannu Nurmi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - From Center-Right to Center-Left: the 2019 Parliamentary Election in Finland (2020) Finnish-German Yearbook of Political Economy Nurmi Lasse, Nurmi Hannu
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Multi-agent systems and voting: how similar are voting procedures (2020)
- Communications in Computer and Information Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Pairwise Voting Rules in Restricted Domains: The Disappearance and Persistence of Some Monotonicity Paradoxes (2020)
- Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Remarks on "The Future Viability of the Dutch Democracy" (2020)
- Munich social science review
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - The incidence of some voting paradoxes under domain restrictions (2020)
- Group Decision and Negotiation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Electoral reform and social choice theory: Piecemeal engineering and selective memory (2019) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence Hannu Nurmi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Institutional background and trends (2019)
- Scandinavian Political Studies
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
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