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Social Choice: : Theory & Research

Social Choice: : Theory & Research

Johnson, Paul E.

Paperback

Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Book 123

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0761914064
ISBN13: 9780761914068
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Jun 25 1998
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.02 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
Author Paul E. Johnson introduces researchers to the key questions, concepts, terminology, methods, and results of social choice theory, a method of aggregating individual s preferences into societal preferences (such as voting). By presenting technical details from the ôground up, ö Johnson first introduces readers to the effects that decision-making procedures have on social choice. He next explains the idea of a social preference function, a rule that is used to take into account individuals, preferences when creating social ordering. He explores the basics and implications of Arrow s possibility theorem and the implications and applications of the uni-dimensional spatial model. Social Choice: Theory and Research concludes with an investigation of the multidimensional spatial model and an exploration of the instability of majority rule, including a discussion of chaos theory. Students in political theory, public choice, and public finance will find Social Choice: Theory and Research a comprehensible introduction to social choice theory. Researchers interested in decision-making difficulties in government, international organizations, and corporations will find this a handy reference for their studies.

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