Social Choice Theory : An Introduction /
This is a textbook introducing selected topics in formal social choice theory. Social choice theory studies group choices that are based on information about preferences of members of the group (voting rules being one important special case). This involves economics, which provides the method of mod...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1988.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: What is Social Choice Theory?- Simple Majority Voting
- The Voting Paradox
- Single-Peakedness
- Chaos
- Other Voting Extensions
- Social Choice Rules
- Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Power
- Rights
- Strategy-Proofness
- Counterthreats
- Approval Voting
- Mistakes
- Mathematical Appendix
- Answers and Hints to Selected Exercises
- Subject Index.