Hannu Nurmi
PhD
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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- Calculus of consent in the EU Council of Ministers (2013) Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 years After Hannu Nurmi, Tommi Meskanen, Antti Pajala
- Fuzzy sets seemed to work (2013) On Fuzziness: A Homage to Lotfi A. Zadeh - Vol 2 Hannu Nurmi
- Party competition and electoral turnout – Downs' calculus in a multiparty system (2013) Constitutional Economics and Public Institutions: Essays in Honour of José Casas Pardo Juha Helin, Hannu Nurmi
- Power Sharing in Politics (2013)
- International Game Theory Review
- Power, Voting, and Voting Power – 30 Years After (2013) Manfred J Holler, Hannu Nurmi
- Reflections on power, voting, and voting power (2013) Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After Manfred J Holler, Hannu Nurmi
- Some voting paradoxes – A fuzzy preference and fuzzy majority perspective (2013) Multicriteria and Multiagent Decision Making with Applications to Economics and Social Sciences Janusz Kacprzyk, Slawomir Zadrozny, Hannu Nurmi, Mario Fedrizzi
- Towards a comprehensive similarity analysis of voting procedures using rough sets and similarity measures (2013) Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak in Memoriam Janusz Kacprzyk, Hannu Nurmi, Slawomir Zadrozny
- Full Proportionality in Sight? (2012) Comparisons, Regimes, Elections Nurmi Hannu
- On the Relevance of Theoretical Results to Voting System Choice (2012) Electoral Systems: Paradoxes, Assumptions, and Procedures Nurmi Hannu
- The Parliamentary Election in Finland, April 2011 (2012)
- Electoral Studies
- Felsenthal, Dan S. (2011) Encyclopedia of Power Nurmi Hannu
- Machover, Moshé (2011) Encyclopedia of Power Nurmi Hannu
- Paradox of New Members (2011) Encyclopedia of Power Nurmi Hannu
- Power Indices (2011) The Encyclopedia of Political Science Nurmi Hannu
- Settings of Consensual Processes: Candidates, Verdicts, Politicies (2011) Consensual Processes Nurmi Hannu
- Voting Paradoxes (2011) Encyclopedia of Power Nurmi Hannu
- Voting Procedures (2011) The Encyclopedia of Political Science Nurmi Hannu
- A Categorical Approach to the Extension of Social Choice Functions (2010)
- Communications in Computer and Information Science
- Connections and Implications of the Ostrogorski Paradox for Spatial Voting Models (2010) Collective Decision Making. Views from Social Choice and Game Theory Nurmi H, Saari D G
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