Handbook on social choice and voting / edited by Jac C. Heckelman, Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University, USA, Nicholas R. Miller, Research Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heckelman, Jac C., editor.

Miller, Nicholas R., 1954- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social choice.

Voting.

Physical Description:

viii, 412 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]

Contents:

1. Introduction: issues in social choice and voting

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

6. Majority rule and tournament solutions

7. Supermajority rules

8. The measurement of a priori voting power

9. Condorcet jery theorems

10. The spatial model of social choice and voting

11. A unified spatial model of American political institutions

12.Competing for votes

13. Probabilistic voting in models of electoral competition

14. Arrow's theorem and its descendants

15. Properties and paadoxes of common voting rules

16. Voting mysteries: a picture is worth a thousand words

17. Multiple-winner voting rules

18. Measuring ideology in congress

19. The uncovered set and its applications

20. Empirical examples of voting paradoxes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version

ISBN:

9781783470723

1783470720

OCLC:

908681718

Publisher Number:

99965758700