Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public ChoiceVoting is often the most public and visible example of mass collective decision-making. But how do we define a collective decision? And how do we classify and evaluate the modes by which collective decisions are made? This book examines these crucial ques |
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Contents
Defining a Collective Decision | 3 |
A Taxonomy of Collective Decision Procedures | 9 |
Economic Criteria for Evaluating Collective Decisions | 23 |
General Criteria for Evaluating Collective Decision Procedures | 35 |
Relative Advantages of Modes of Making Collective Decisions | 43 |
What is a Good Collective Decision? | 57 |
Voting | 75 |
An Overview of Voting | 77 |
The Arrow Theorem | 123 |
Strategic Voting and the GibbardSatterthwaite Theorem | 143 |
Criteria for Evaluating RankingBased VoteProcessing Rules | 149 |
Alternatives to Plurality | 165 |
Vote Processing Rules for Selecting One Option from a Continuum of One or More Dimensions When Votes Have Predetermined Weights | 245 |
Vote Processing Rules for Selecting More than One Candidate When Votes | 263 |
Vote Processing Rules With Endogenous Weights for SelfInterested | 289 |
Lessons from the Excursion | 321 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice |
| Author | Nicolaus Tideman |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 |
| ISBN | 075464717X, 9780754647171 |
| Length | 335 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections |
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