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| Author | : Shmuel Nitzan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0521897254 |
A study of the classical aggregation problems that arise in social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty.
| Author | : David Austen-Smith |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2000-12-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780472087211 |
A definitive, comprehensive, and analytically sophisticated treatment of the theory of collective preference
| Author | : Scott L. Althaus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2003-09-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521527873 |
Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help survey researchers, journalists, politicians, and concerned citizens better appreciate the pitfalls and possibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people s voice.
| Author | : Amartya Sen |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2018-05-17 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0674919211 |
Originally published in 1970, this classic study has been recognized for its groundbreaking role in integrating economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new areas of research in social choice, including aggregative assessment. It has also had a large influence on international organizations, including the United Nations, notably in its work on human development. The book showed that the “impossibility theorems” in social choice theory—led by the pioneering work of Kenneth Arrow—do not negate the possibility of reasoned and democratic social choice. Sen’s ideas about social choice, welfare economics, inequality, poverty, and human rights have continued to evolve since the book’s first appearance. This expanded edition preserves the text of the original while presenting eleven new chapters of fresh arguments and results. “Expanding on the early work of Condorcet, Pareto, Arrow, and others, Sen provides rigorous mathematical argumentation on the merits of voting mechanisms...For those with graduate training, it will serve as a frequently consulted reference and a necessity on one’s book shelf.” —J. F. O’Connell, Choice
| Author | : Nicolaus Tideman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2017-03-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351950622 |
When one thinks about how collective decisions are made, voting is the method that comes naturally to mind. But other methods such as random process and consensus are also used. This book explores just what a collective decision is, classifies the methods of making collective decisions, and identifies the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Classification is the prelude to evaluation. What are the characteristics of a method of making collective decisions, the book asks, that permit us to describe a collective decision as good? The second part of the book is detailed exploration of voting: the dimensions in which voting situations differ, the origins and logic of majority rule, the frequency of cycles in voting, the Arrow and Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorems, criteria for ways of cutting through cycles and the application of these criteria to a variety of rules, voting over continuums, proportional representation, and voting rules that take account of intensities of preferences. Relatively unknown methods of voting give voting a much greater potential than is generally recognized. Collective Decisions and Voting is essential reading for everyone with an interest in voting theory and in how public choices might be made.
| Author | : Kotaro Suzumura |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521122559 |
An examination of the phenomenon of social cooperation failure, even amongst a group of rational individuals.
| Author | : Peter C. Fishburn |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2015-03-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1400868335 |
One fundamental premise of democratic theory is that social policy, group choice, or collective action should be based on the preferences of the individuals in the society, group, or collective. Using the tools of formal mathematical analysis, Peter C. Fishburn explores and defines the conditions for social choice and methods for synthesizing individuals' preferences. This study is unique in its emphasis on social choice functions, the general position that individual indifference may not be transitive, and the use of certain mathematics such as linear algebra. The text is divided into three main parts: social choice between two alternatives, which examines a variety of majority-like functions; simple majority social choice, which focuses on social choice among many alternatives when two-element feasible subset choices are based on simple majority; and a general study of aspects and types of social choice functions for many alternatives. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
| Author | : Kenneth J. Arrow |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2012-06-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0300186983 |
Originally published in 1951, "Social Choice and Individual Values" introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces Arrow's seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers."Far beyond a classic, this small book unleashed the ongoing explosion of interest in social choice and voting theory. A half-century later, the book remains full of profound insight: its central message, 'Arrow's Theorem, ' has changed the way we think."--Donald G. Saari, author of "Decisions and Elections: Explaining the Unexpected "
| Author | : Kenneth Joseph Arrow |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1963-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780300013641 |
The literature on the theory of social choice has grown considerably beyond the few items in existence at the time the first edition of this book appeared in 1951. Some of the new literature has dealt with the technical, mathematical aspects, more with the interpretive. My own thinking has also evolved somewhat, although I remain far from satisfied with present formulations. The exhaustion of the first edition provides a convenient time for a selective and personal stocktaking in the form of an appended commentary entitled, 'Notes on the Theory of Social Choice, 1963, ' containing reflections on the text and its omissions and on some of the more recent literature. This form has seemed more appropriate than a revision of the original text, which has to some extent acquired a life of its own.
| Author | : Dennis Chong |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1991-06-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226104419 |
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism that are often neglected by rational choice theorists. Using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, he explores how rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes. In addition to applying formal modeling to the puzzling and important social phenomenon of collective action, he offers persuasive insights into the political and psychological dynamics that provoke and sustain public activism. This remarkably accessible study demonstrates how the civil rights movement succeeded against difficult odds by mobilizing community resources, resisting powerful opposition, and winning concessions from the government.
