Empirical social choice: an introduction

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Public Choice, 2014, vol. 158, issue 3, 297-310

Abstract: The year 2012 was the 30th anniversary of William H. Riker’s modern classic Liberalism against populism ( 1982 ) and is marked by the present special issue. In this introduction, we seek to identify some core elements and evaluate the current status of the Rikerian research program and its empirical applications. Special attention is given to three phenomena and their possible empirical manifestations: The instability of social choice in the form of (1) the possibility of majority cycles, (2) the non-robustness of social choices given alternative voting methods, and (3) the possibility of various forms of manipulation of the decisions (heresthetics). These topics are then connected to the contributions to the current special issue. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Social choice; Condorcet’s Paradox; Voting theory; Voting paradoxes; Preferences; Heresthetics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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