Handbook of Social Choice and Voting

Edited by Jac Heckelman and Nicholas R. Miller

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting that is intended for a broad audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical summaries of the existing literature, including intuitive explanations of technical terminology and well-known theorems, suggesting new directions for research.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781783470723
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: issues in social choice and voting , pp 1-12

Jac Heckelman and Nicholas R. Miller

Ch 2 The strange history of social choice , pp 15-34

Iain McLean

Ch 3 Unanimous consent and constitutional economics , pp 35-53

Randall Holcombe

Ch 4 Rational choice and the calculus of voting , pp 54-66

André Blais

Ch 5 Computational social choice , pp 67-80

Robi Ragan

Ch 6 Majority rule and tournament solutions , pp 83-101

Scott Moser

Ch 7 Supermajority rules , pp 102-116

Keith L. Dougherty

Ch 8 The measurement of a priori voting power , pp 117-139

Dan S. Felsenthal and Moshé Machover

Ch 9 Condorcet jury theorems , pp 140-160

Bryan McCannon

Ch 10 The spatial model of social choice and voting , pp 163-181

Nicholas R. Miller

Ch 11 A unified spatial model of American political institutions , pp 182-200

Thomas H. Hammond

Ch 12 Competing for votes , pp 201-217

James F. Adams

Ch 13 Probabilistic voting in models of electoral competition , pp 218-234

Peter Coughlin

Ch 14 Arrow’s Theorem and its descendants , pp 237-262

Elizabeth Maggie Penn

Ch 15 Properties and paradoxes of common voting rules , pp 263-283

Jac Heckelman

Ch 16 Voting mysteries: a picture is worth a thousand words , pp 284-302

Donald G. Saari

Ch 17 Multiple-winner voting rules , pp 303-324

Nicolaus Tideman

Ch 18 Measuring ideology in Congress , pp 327-346

Christopher Hare and Keith T. Poole

Ch 19 The uncovered set and its applications , pp 347-366

William T. Bianco, Christopher Kam, Itai Sened and Regina A. Smyth

Ch 20 Empirical examples of voting paradoxes , pp 367-387

Marek M. Kaminski

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