Collective decisions and voting : the potential for public choice /
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England:
Ashgate,
2006
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006021134.html |
Table of Contents:
- Collective decisions
- Defining a collective decision
- A taxonomy of collective decision procedures
- Economic criteria for evaluating collective decisions
- General criteria for evaluating collective decision procedures
- Relative advantages of modes of making collective decisions
- What is a good collective decision?
- Voting
- An overview of voting
- Majority rule and its weighted analog
- Voting cycles
- The arrow theorem
- Strategic voting and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem
- Criteria for evaluating ranking-based vote-processing rules
- Vote processing rules for selecting one option from many when votes have predetermined weights : alternatives to plurality
- Vote processing rules for selecting one option from a continuum of one or more dimensions when votes have predetermined weights
- Vote processing rules for selecting more than one option when votes have predetermined weights : proportional representation
- Vote processing rules with endogenous weights for self-interested advocates : revealing intensities of preferences
- Lessons from the excursion