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Positive changes in political science : the legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's most influential writings / John H. Aldrich, James E. Alt, and Arthur Lupia, editors.
LIBRA JA71 .P698 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Analytical perspectives on politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McKelvey, Richard D--Works.
- McKelvey, Richard D.
- McKelvey, Richard D--Political and social views.
- Political science--Decision making--Mathematical models.
- Political science.
- Voting--Mathematical models.
- Voting.
- Social choice.
- Political planning.
- Political science--Decision making.
- Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 495 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Richard D. McKelvey was a pioneer in the use of mathematical modeling for understanding the nature of political choices. Positive Changes in Political Science brings together his most important articles, accompanied by original essays from contemporary political scientists, some his colleagues or students, who reflect upon his contributions, their continuing relevance today, and how they are still shaping research for the future.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 McKelvey's Democracy / John Ferejohn 9
- Chapter 3 Majority Cycling and Agenda Manipulation: Richard McKelvey's Contributions and Legacy / Gary W. Cox, Kenneth A. Shepsle 19
- Chapter 4 Intransitivities in Multidimensional Voting Models and Some Implications for Agenda Control / Richard D. McKelvey 41
- Chapter 5 General Conditions for Global Intransitivities in Formal Voting Models / Richard D. McKelvey 53
- Chapter 6 Statistical Tests of Theoretical Results / John H. Aldrich, Keith T. Poole 93
- Chapter 7 A Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections / John H. Aldrich, Richard D. McKelvey 103
- Chapter 8 A Statistical Model for the Analysis of Ordinal Level Dependent Variables / Richard D. McKelvey, William Zavoina 143
- Chapter 9 The Competitive Solution Revisited / Peter C. Ordeshook 165
- Chapter 10 The Competitive Solution for N-Person Games without Transferable Utility, with an Application to Committee Games / Richard D. McKelvey, Peter C. Ordeshook, Mark D. Winer 187
- Chapter 11 Social Choice and Elections / Norman Schofield 221
- Chapter 12 Covering, Dominance, and Institution-Free Properties of Social Choice / Richard D. McKelvey 243
- Chapter 13 Generalized Symmetry Conditions at a Core Point / Richard D. McKelvey, Norman Schofield 281
- Chapter 14 Information in Elections / David Austen-Smith, Arthur Lupia 295
- Chapter 15 Elections with Limited Information: A Fulfilled Expectations Model Using Contemporaneous Poll and Endorsement Data as Information Sources / Richard D. McKelvey, Peter C. Ordeshook 315
- Chapter 16 Centipede Game Experiments / Alan Gerber 349
- Chapter 17 Why the Centipede Game Is Important for Political Science / Rebecca B. Morton 365
- Chapter 18 An Experimental Study of the Centipede Game / Richard D. McKelvey, Thomas R. Palfrey 377
- Chapter 19 McKelvey and Quantal Response Equilibrium / Thomas R. Palfrey 425
- Chapter 20 Quantal Response Equilibria for Normal Form Games / Richard D. McKelvey, Thomas R. Palfrey 441
- Chapter 21 Computation in Finite Games: Using Gambit for Quantitative Analysis / Theodore L. Turocy 475
- Chapter 22 What McKelvey Taught Us / John W. Patty, Elizabeth Maggie Penn 489.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780472069866
- 0472069861
- 0472099868
- OCLC:
- 148699663
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