Paul Demeny (born Nyiregyhaza, Hungary in 1932) is a Hungarian demographer and economist known for pioneering the concept of Demeny voting. [1]
Paul Demeny (born Nyiregyhaza, Hungary in 1932) is a Hungarian demographer and economist known for pioneering the concept of Demeny voting. [1]
Demeny graduated from the Reformed College of Debrecen in 1951 and from the University of Budapest in 1955. He then attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 1957. He eventually received a PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1961. At Princeton, his mentors were demographers Frank W. Notestein and Ansley J. Coale, as well as economists William Baumol, Oscar Morgenstern and Jacob Viner. [2] [3]
He was appointed assistant professor of economics at Princeton University in 1961, and as research associate at Princeton's Office of Population Research, a research center. In 1966, he moved to the University of Michigan and in 1969 to the University of Hawaii. In 1973, he joined the Population Council, a U.S.-based non-profit, as vice president and director of its Demographic Division. There, he founded the Population and Development Review, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal. [4]
Demeny is known for introducing the idea of Demeny voting in 1986. [5] Demeny voting is a system that would "let custodial parents exercise the children's voting rights," with the goal of "mak(ing) the political system more responsive to the young generation's interests" and addressing the threat of gerontocracy. [6] [7]
In 2003, he was named laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. [8] In 2018, he was awarded the Hungarian Order of St. Stephen. [9]
Jacob Viner was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading figures of the Chicago faculty. Paul Samuelson named Viner as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860. He was an important figure in the field of political economy.
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Demeny voting is a type of proxy voting where the provision of a political voice for children by allowing parents or guardians to vote on their behalf. The term is named after demographer Paul Demeny even though the concept predates him and is often pitched as a stop-gap measure for whatever ages suffrage is denied to youth. Under a Demeny voting system, parents would decide how to cast each child's proxy vote, and some systems could allow for a split vote if the parents' political views differ. Children would gain the right to vote either at a certain voting age or when they feel they are ready.
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