Collective Decision-Making:

'The editor has selected carefully an excellent array of articles and organized them most effectively in a logical and coherent presentation of critical issues with social choice and political economy within the context of collective decision making. This is an excellent edited volume for readers familiar with the general theories, theorems, and voting methods presented, and for those interested in updating their understanding of the more recent literature on these topics.' Review of Radical Political Economics, December 1998

• 1 Introduction: Research Programs in Preference and Belief Aggregation.- I. Social Choice.- 2 An Introduction to Arrovian Social Welfare Functions on Economic and Political Domains.- 3 Social Ranking of Allocations with and without Coalition Formation.- 4 Non Binary Social Choice: A Brief Introduction.- 5 Election Relations and a Partial Ordering for Positional Voting.- II. Elections and Committees.- 6 Electing Legislatures.- 7 Preference-Based Stability: Experiments on Cooperative Solutions to Majority Rule Games.- 8 The Heart of a Polity.- 9 Refinements of the Heart.- III. Coalition Governments.- 10 Bargaining in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.- 11 An Analysis of the Euskarian Parliament.- 12 Extending a Dynamic Model of Protocoalition Formation.- 13 The Sequential Dynamics of Cabinet Formation, Stochastic Error, and a Test of Competing Models.- 14 Subgame-Perfect Portfolio Allocations in Parliamentary Government Formation.- 15 The Costs of Coalition: The Italian Anomaly.- IV. Political Economy.- 16 Models of Interest Groups: Four Different Approaches.- 17 Partisan Electoral Cycles and Monetary Policy Games.- 18 Hypothesis Testing and Collective Decision-Making.- 19 Political Discourse, Factions, and the General Will: Correlated Voting and Condorcet’s Jury Theorem.- Name Index.