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Collective Decision-Making:: Social Choice and Political Economy

Collective Decision-Making:: Social Choice and Political Economy

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Series: Recent Economic Thought, Book 50

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9048158001
ISBN13: 9789048158003
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 7 2010
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In the last decade the techniques of social choice theory, game theory and positive political theory have been combined in interesting ways so as to pro- vide a common framework for analyzing the behavior of a developed political economy. Social choice theory itself grew out of the innovative attempts by Ken- neth Arrow (1951) and Duncan Black (1948, 1958) to extend the range of economic theory in order to deal with collective decision-making over public goods. Later work, by William Baumol (1952), and James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (1962), focussed on providing an economic interpretation of democratic institutions. In the same period Anthony Downs (1957) sought to model representative democracy and elections while William Riker (1962) made use of work in cooperative game theory (by John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern, 1944) to study coalition behavior. In my view, these rational choice analyses of collective decision-making have their antecedents in the arguments of Adam Smith (1759, 1776), James Madison (1787) and the Marquis de Condorcet (1785) about the design of political institutions. In the introductory chapter to this volume I briefly describe how some of the current normative and positive aspects of social choice date back to these earlier writers.

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