Social Choice: : Theory & Research (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761914068)

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.



Author: Paul E. Johnson
ISBN-10: 0761914064
ISBN-13: 9780761914068
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 7.98h x 6.02w x 0.27d