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Election Systems and Gerrymandering Worldwide
Inbunden, 2020
1102 kr
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This book explores the similarities and differences among national election systems around the globe and sheds light on how election systems are susceptible to gerrymandering, which is the process by which an incumbent or a political party attempts to manipulate the boundaries of electoral …
Election Systems and Gerrymandering Worldwide
Häftad, 2021
1102 kr
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This book explores the similarities and differences among national election systems around the globe and sheds light on how election systems are susceptible to gerrymandering, which is the process by which an incumbent or a political party attempts to manipulate the boundaries of electoral …
Analytical Theory of Democracy
History, Mathematics and Applications
2020
2194 kr
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This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies. Both individual representatives and representative bodies are evaluated using the indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on topical …
Analytical Theory of Democracy
History, Mathematics and Applications
2021
2194 kr
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This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies. Both individual representatives and representative bodies are evaluated using the indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on topical …
Evaluating Voting Systems with Probability Models
Essays by and in Honor of William Gehrlein and Dominique Lepelley
Av Mostapha Diss, Vincent Merlin
Inbunden, 2020
1752 kr
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This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms. Featuring papers from all fields of social choice and game theory, it presents probability arguments to allow readers to gain a better understanding of the …
Evaluating Voting Systems with Probability Models
Essays by and in Honor of William Gehrlein and Dominique Lepelley
Av Mostapha Diss, Vincent Merlin
Häftad, 2021
1752 kr
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This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms. Featuring papers from all fields of social choice and game theory, it presents probability arguments to allow readers to gain a better understanding of the …
Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory - Vol. 1
Av Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles
Inbunden, 2021
1752 kr
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This volume presents interviews that have been conducted from the 1980s to the present with important scholars of social choice and welfare theory. Starting with a brief history of social choice and welfare theory written by the book editors, it features 15 conversations with four Nobel Laureates …
Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory - Vol. 1
Av Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles
Häftad, 2022
1752 kr
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This volume presents interviews that have been conducted from the 1980s to the present with important scholars of social choice and welfare theory. Starting with a brief history of social choice and welfare theory written by the book editors, it features 15 conversations with four Nobel Laureates …
Advances in Collective Decision Making
Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the 21st Century
Av Sascha Kurz, Nicola Maaser m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2188 kr
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This book presents research on recent developments in collective decision-making. With contributions from leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, it provides an up-to-date overview of applications in social choice theory, welfare economics, and industrial organization. The contributions …
Advances in Collective Decision Making
Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the 21st Century
Av Sascha Kurz, Nicola Maaser m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
2188 kr
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This book presents research on recent developments in collective decision-making. With contributions from leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, it provides an up-to-date overview of applications in social choice theory, welfare economics, and industrial organization. The contributions …
Delegate Apportionment in the US Presidential Primaries
A Mathematical Analysis
Av Michael A. Jones, David McCune m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1098 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive mathematical description and analysis of the delegate allocation processes in the US Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, focusing on the role of apportionment methods and the effect of thresholds—the minimum levels of support required to receive …
Delegate Apportionment in the US Presidential Primaries
A Mathematical Analysis
Av Michael A. Jones, David McCune m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1098 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive mathematical description and analysis of the delegate allocation processes in the US Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, focusing on the role of apportionment methods and the effect of thresholds—the minimum levels of support required to receive …
Axiomatics of Economic Design, Vol. 1
An Introduction to Theory and Methods
Inbunden, 2023
678 kr
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This textbook is Volume 1 of a two-volume set on the axiomatics of economic design. Its central argument is that economic institutions are not God-given: they are man-made. Their ultimate goal is to promote social welfare. The book describes the axiomatic approach to design. It consists in the …
Axiomatics of Economic Design, Vol. 1
An Introduction to Theory and Methods
Häftad, 2024
679 kr
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This textbook is Volume 1 of a two-volume set on the axiomatics of economic design. Its central argument is that economic institutions are not God-given: they are man-made. Their ultimate goal is to promote social welfare. The book describes the axiomatic approach to design. It consists in the …
Elections and Fair Division
An Introduction to Social Choice Theory
Av Harrie de Swart, Stefan Wintein
Inbunden, 2025
1098 kr
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This graduate textbook introduces to social choice theory, with a specific focus on elections and fair division, supported by mathematical theories and practical implications. Part I sheds light on the complexity of fair elections, and presents classical results from social choice theory, including …
Condorcet Domains
The Mathematics of Coherent Collective Decision-Making
Av Clemens Puppe, Arkadii Slinko
Inbunden, 2026
769 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive account of Condorcet domains—structured sets of preference orders in which the pairwise majority relation remains transitive for any odd-numbered group of voters. These domains form the foundation for normatively robust voting procedures and enable strong …
Voting Power and Procedures
Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
Av Rudolf Fara, Dennis Leech m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, …
Social Choice and Democratic Values
Inbunden, 2015
1316 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theory of social choice and the more traditional issues of …
Fair Queueing
Inbunden, 2016
1316 kr
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This monograph provides a detailed analysis on fair queueing rules from a normative, a strategic, and a non-cooperative viewpoint. The queueing problem is concerned with the following situation: There is a group of agents who must be served in a facility. The facility can handle only one agent at a …
Voting Power and Procedures
Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
Av Rudolf Fara, Dennis Leech m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1098 kr
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This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, …
Elections, Voting Rules and Paradoxical Outcomes
Av William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley
Inbunden, 2017
1207 kr
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This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet Paradox might exist. It is well known that hypothetical examples of many different paradoxical election outcomes can be developed, but this analysis examines factors that are …
Social Choice and Democratic Values
Häftad, 2019
1316 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theory of social choice and the more traditional issues of …
Fair Queueing
Häftad, 2018
1316 kr
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This monograph provides a detailed analysis on fair queueing rules from a normative, a strategic, and a non-cooperative viewpoint. The queueing problem is concerned with the following situation: There is a group of agents who must be served in a facility. The facility can handle only one agent at a …
Elections, Voting Rules and Paradoxical Outcomes
Av William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley
Häftad, 2018
1207 kr
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This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet Paradox might exist. It is well known that hypothetical examples of many different paradoxical election outcomes can be developed, but this analysis examines factors that are …
Social Choice and Strategic Decisions
Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks
Av David Austen-Smith, John Duggan
Inbunden, 2005
1098 kr
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Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks' research on this subject. It …
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach
Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications
Inbunden, 2005
1243 kr
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Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual’s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms …
Mathematics and Democracy
Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice
Av Bruno Simeone, Friedrich Pukelsheim
Inbunden, 2006
1643 kr
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In this book, different quantitative approaches to the study of electoral systems have been developed: game-theoretic, decision-theoretic, statistical, probabilistic, combinatorial, geometric, and optimization ones. All the authors are prominent scholars from these disciplines. Quantitative …
Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order
Essays in Honor of Peter C. Fishburn
Av Steven Brams, William V. Gehrlein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1752 kr
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Peter Fishburn has had a splendidly productive career that led to path-breaking c- tributions in a remarkable variety of areas of research. His contributions have been published in a vast literature, ranging through journals of social choice and welfare, decision theory, operations research, …
Rational Choice and Social Welfare
Theory and Applications
Av Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Koichi Tadenuma m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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This volume brings together papers, which were ?rst presented at the International Conference on Rational Choice, Individual Rights and Non-Welfaristic Normative Economics, held in honour of Kotaro Suzumura at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, on 11–13 March 2006, and which have subsequently gone …
Handbook on Approval Voting
Av Jean-François Laslier, M. Remzi Sanver
Inbunden, 2010
1861 kr
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I am honoredto write a prefaceto this remarkablybroadand comprehensivevolume on approval voting (AV). It has been almost 35 years since Peter C. Fishburn and I met in 1976 and began research on AV. Besides my 30-year collaboration with Fishburn, I have collaborated with several other scholars - …
