There are over 180 ILO conventions in many areas of labour law, industrial relations and social security, but they are not ratified universally: for the conventions adopted between 1975 and 1995, the cumulated probability of ratification is about 13 per cent ten years after their adoption. In...

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid paradoxical outcomes. Together with a companion volume by the same authors, Monotonicity Failures...

Chapter 1:Valuation, Choice, and Human Action: Economic Calculation Reimagined -- Chapter 2:Human association within a theory of social organization -- Chapter 3:Human Differences, Leadership, and the Emergence of Politics -- Chapter 4:System’s Theory as an Appropriate Tool for Understanding...