Social Choice
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Social Choice

Theory and Research

  1. 121 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Social Choice

Theory and Research

About this book

Author Paul E. Johnson introduces researchers to the key questions, concepts, terminology, methods, and results of social choice theory, a method of aggregating individualÆs preferences into societal preferences (such as voting). By presenting technical details from the ôground up,ö Johnson first introduces readers to the effects that decision-making procedures have on social choice. He next explains the idea of a social preference function, a rule that is used to take into account individuals, preferences when creating social ordering. He explores the basics and implications of ArrowÆs possibility theorem and the implications and applications of the uni-dimensional spatial model. Social Choice: Theory and Research concludes with an investigation of the multidimensional spatial model and an exploration of the instability of majority rule, including a discussion of chaos theory. Students in political theory, public choice, and public finance will find Social Choice: Theory and Research a comprehensible introduction to social choice theory. Researchers interested in decision-making difficulties in government, international organizations, and corporations will find this a handy reference for their studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Editor’s Introduction
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1 - What is Social Choice Theory
  7. The Voter’s Paradox
  8. The Big Picture
  9. An Outline of This Book
  10. Chapter 2 - Fundamental Terminology: Discrete Social Choice
  11. Chapter 3 - Arrow’s Theorem
  12. The Social Preference Function
  13. Arrow’s Possibility Theorem
  14. The Meaning of Arrow’s Theorem
  15. Chapter 4 - Fundamental Terminology: Continuous Sets of Alternatives
  16. The Euclidean Spatial Model
  17. Utility Functions
  18. Continuity and Utility Representations on the Continuum
  19. Convexity and Single-Peakedness
  20. Chapter 5 - The Unidimensional Spatial Model
  21. The Importance of Single-Peaked Preferences
  22. The Median Voter Theorem
  23. Reversion Points and Take-It-or-Leave-It Offers
  24. Unraveling in Democratically Governed Groups
  25. Chapter 6 - The Multidimensional Spatial Model
  26. The Importance of Convexity
  27. Stability Analysis: Majority Rule in Several Dimensions
  28. The Chaos Theorems
  29. Addressing the Disequilibrium Problem
  30. Structure-Induced Equilibrium
  31. Behavioral Sources of Stability
  32. Chapter 7 - Conclusion: Looking Backward and Forward
  33. References
  34. About the Author