ISBN:
9781783470730
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (544 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Handbook on social choice and voting
DDC:
302.1/3
Schlagwort(e):
Social choice
;
Voting
;
Social choice
;
Voting
;
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Kurzfassung:
This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting that is intended for a broad audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical summaries of the existing literature, including intuitive explanations of technical terminology and well-known theorems, suggesting new directions for research
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: issues in social choice and voting -- PART I PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL CHOICE -- 2. The strange history of social choice -- 3. Unanimous consent and constitutional economics -- 4. Rational choice and the calculus of voting -- 5. Computational social choice -- PART II PAIRWISE SOCIAL CHOICE -- 6. Majority rule and tournament solutions -- 7. Supermajority rules -- 8. The measurement of a priori voting power -- 9. Condorcet jury theorems -- PART III SPATIAL MODELS OF SOCIAL CHOICE -- 10. The spatial model of social choice and voting
Kurzfassung:
11. A unified spatial model of American political institutions -- 12. Competing for votes -- 13. Probabilistic voting in models of electoral competition -- PART IV SOCIAL CHOICE FROM MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVES -- 14. Arrow's Theorem and its descendants -- 15. Properties and paradoxes of common voting rules -- 16. Voting mysteries: a picture is worth a thousand words -- 17. Multiple-winner voting rules -- PART V EMPIRICAL SOCIAL CHOICE -- 18. Measuring ideology in Congress -- 19. The uncovered set and its applications -- 20. Empirical examples of voting paradoxes
Kurzfassung:
Glossary of terms pertaining to social choice and voting -- Index
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