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The Political Economy of Social Choices

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Editors:
  1. Maria Gallego

    1. Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

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  2. Norman Schofield

    1. Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, USA

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  • Investigates the decision making process in different institutional settings and across political systems
  • Presents state-of-the-art research in political economy and social choice theory
  • Includes important insights into voting behavior, elections, and legislatures
  • Applies game theory, mathematical and statistical tools, data analysis and simulation

Part of the book series: Studies in Political Economy (POEC)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Autocratic Health Versus Democratic Health: Different Outcome Variables for Health as a Factor Versus Health as a Right

    • Dina Rosenberg, Olga Shvetsova
    Pages 1-20

  3. Comparison of Voting Procedures Using Models of Electoral Competition with Endogenous Candidacy

    • Damien Bol, Arnaud Dellis, Mandar Oak
    Pages 21-54

  4. Negative Advertising During Mexico’s 2012 Presidential Campaign

    • Andrei Gomberg, Emilio GutiĂ©rrez, Zeev Thepris
    Pages 55-72

  5. Legislative Leaders as Condorcet Winners? The Case of the U.S. Congress

    • Robert S. Erikson, Yair Ghitza
    Pages 73-91

  6. The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867–2011

    • J. Stephen Ferris, Stanley L. Winer, Bernard Grofman
    Pages 93-122

  7. Modelling the Effect of Campaign Advertising on US Presidential Elections

    • Maria Gallego, Norman Schofield
    Pages 123-152

  8. Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology

    • Rebecca Morton, Jean-Robert Tyran, Erik Wengström
    Pages 153-185

  9. Statistical Utilitarianism

    • Marcus Pivato
    Pages 187-204

  10. Measuring Campaign Spending Effects in Post-Citizens United Congressional Elections

    • Brandon Barutt, Norman Schofield
    Pages 205-232

  11. Spatial Model of U.S. Presidential Election in 2012

    • Jeong Hyun Kim, Norman Schofield
    Pages 233-241

  12. Modeling Elections and Referenda in Ireland

    • Norman Schofield, William Simoneau
    Pages 243-259
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This book presents state-of-the-art research in political economy dealing with the decision making process under different political institutions. It focuses on the role that states and governments have on political outcomes and on the well-being of individuals, taking into account the differences that arise across autocracies and democracies and within political regimes. The research in this book is embedded with the political economy and social choice traditions and uses the rigorous frameworks of economics, political science and social choice theory to show how institutional settings shape social choices of a group of individuals or a nation. The contributions in this volume use a variety of cutting-edge game theory and mathematical tools as well as data and simulations that coupled with statistical techniques help us gain greater insights into these issues.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

    Maria Gallego

  • Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, USA

    Norman Schofield

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