Hannu Nurmi
PhD, professor emeritus
Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science hnurmi@utu.fi |
voting systems, electoral systems, social choice theory, applied game theory, preference modeling, decision theory
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.
voting and social choice, applied game theory, preference modeling, nonexperimental causal analysis
voting theory, preference modeling, nonexperimental causal analysis, applied game theory
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- Choosing a Voting Procedure for the GDSS GRUS. (2017) Group Decision and Negotiation Palha R.P., Zarate P., de Almeida A.T., Nurmi H.
- Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate (2017) Dan S. Felsenthal, Hannu Nurmi
- Reason vs. rationality: From rankings to tournaments in individual choice (2017) Transactions in Computational Collective Intelligence XXVII Janusz Kacprzyk, Hannu Nurmi, Slawomir Zadrozny
- Reforming democracy: Comment on "Proposals for a Democracy of the Future"by Bruno Frey (2017)
- Homo Oeconomicus
- The introduction and development of fuzzy sets theory and applications in Finland (2017)
- Archives for the Philosophy and History of Soft Computing
- 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
- Vaalimenettely ja äänestämisen hyöty äänestäjälle (2017) Poliittinen osallistuminen. Vanhan ja uuden osallistumisen jännitteitä Hannu Nurmi
- 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
- Mitä vikaa Granger-kausaliteetissa? (2016) De natura rerum. Scripta in honorem professoris Olli Koistinen sexagesimum annum complentis Hannu Nurmi
- 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
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