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Social Choice and Welfare is an interdisciplinary journal exploring all aspects of welfare economics, collective choice, and strategic interaction.

  • Addresses the ethical and positive aspects of welfare economics and collective choice theory.
  • Explores issues in social choice and voting theory, as well as all aspects of welfare theory.
  • Emphasizes theory, but also publishes related empirical work
  • Cuts across the boundaries of economics, political science, philosophy, and mathematics.
Managing Editors
  • François Maniquet,
  • Avidit Acharya,
  • Felix Brandt,
  • Marcus Pivato
Impact factor
0.9 (2022)
5 year impact factor
0.9 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
15 days
Downloads
166,529 (2023)

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  • 2024 SSCW Meeting

    The next Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare will be held in Paris in 2024, form July 3 to 6.

    More information can be found here

  • Collections and Special Issues

    All recent and upcoming Collections and Special Issues can be found here. Social Choice and Welfare welcomes submissions to upcoming Collections. All Open Calls for Papers are displayed on this site as well. 

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1432-217X
Print ISSN
0176-1714
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