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Social choice / edited by Bernhardt Lieberman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Revivals
- Routledge revivals
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decision making--Congresses.
- Decision making.
- Choice (Psychology)--Congresses.
- Choice (Psychology).
- Social interaction--Congresses.
- Social interaction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem. This reissue will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on group decision making and social choice. Economists, social psychologists, political scientists and sociologists will welcome this valuable work.
- Contents:
- Copyright; SOCIAL CHOICE; Copyright; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CONTENTS; SECTION 1DEFINING THE PROBLEM; Introductory discussion; Chapter 1.1Combining individual preferences into a social choice; Chapter 1.2Foundations for a theory of collective decisions; SECTION 2DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES; Introductory discussion; Chapter 2.1Negotiations and decisions in a politics game; Chapter 2.2Coalition formation and change; Chapter 2.3An experimental examination of formal and informal rules of a three-person game; Chapter 2.4Coalition behavior in inessential games
- Chapter 2.5Bargaining behavior in an asymmetric triadChapter 2.6A level of aspiration model for group decision making; Chapter 2.7A utility theory for the behavior of three-person interaction systems; Chapter 2.8An experimental study of three voting rules; Chapter 2.9Choosing among alternative distributions of rewards; Chapter 2.10Control of collectivities an the power of a collectivity to act; Chapter 2.11Individual preferences, collective decisions, and social welfare; SECTION 3NORMATIVE STUDIES; Introductory discussion
- Chapter 3.1Some extensions to a mathematical model of democratic choice OTTOChapter 3.2Some types of party competition and their function in social choice; Social Choice; Chapter 3.3An estimate for the decisiveness of election outcomes; Chapter 3.4A game-theoretic analysis of social choice; Chapter 3.5A game-theoretic analysis of party platform selection; PARTICIPANTS AND ATTENDANTS OF THE CONFERENCE
- Notes:
- First published in 1971 by Gordon and Breach.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-81606-2
- 1-283-53883-0
- 9786613851284
- 1-136-81607-0
- 0-203-82954-9
- 9780203829547
- OCLC:
- 808099868
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