Collective decisions and voting : the potential for public choice

XVI, 335 S.

graph. Darst.

24cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 -- Cycles -- The arrow theorem -- Strategic voting and the gibbardsatterthwaite 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

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