The Political Economy of Social Choices
Editors: Gallego, Maria, Schofield, Norman (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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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.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Autocratic Health Versus Democratic Health: Different Outcome Variables for Health as a Factor Versus Health as a Right
Pages 1-20
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Comparison of Voting Procedures Using Models of Electoral Competition with Endogenous Candidacy
Pages 21-54
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Negative Advertising During Mexico’s 2012 Presidential Campaign
Pages 55-72
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Legislative Leaders as Condorcet Winners? The Case of the U.S. Congress
Pages 73-91
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The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867–2011
Pages 93-122
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Political Economy of Social Choices
- Editors
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- Maria Gallego
- Norman Schofield
- Series Title
- Studies in Political Economy
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-40118-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-40116-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-82034-7
- Series ISSN
- 2364-5903
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVIII, 259
- Number of Illustrations
- 16 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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