, including one on the importance of Machiavelli’s writing as a reference point for modern political theory, and others on the … related concepts of fairness and responsibility. A majority of the chapters make use of game theory. …

Approval Voting -- Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting -- Axiomatic Theory -- Collective Choice … axiomatic point of view; game theory and computer science have been used to scrutinize various strategic aspects; and political …

, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies …. Other theories that shed light on power distribution (e.g. aggregation theory) are treated as well. The book revisits the …

theory, computational social choice, and fair division. It thus offers an interdisciplinary treatment of collective decision … making from an economic and computational perspective. Part I introduces to algorithmic game theory, focusing on both … noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Part II introduces to computational social choice, focusing on both preference …

in legislatures. The chapters of this book contribute to the theory of voting with incomplete information, to the … literature on Downsian and probabilistic voting models of elections, to the theory of social choice in distributive environments …, and to the theory of optimal dynamic decision-making. The essays employ a spectrum of research methods, from game …

Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration caused an increase in …