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Social Choice Theory

An Introduction

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Jerry S. Kelly

    1. Department of Economics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. What is Social Choice Theory?

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 1-3

  3. Simple Majority Voting

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 4-14

  4. The Voting Paradox

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 15-22

  5. Single-Peakedness

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 23-35

  6. Chaos

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 36-49

  7. Other Voting Extensions

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 50-56

  8. Social Choice Rules

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 57-79

  9. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

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    Pages 80-87

  10. Power

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 88-92

  11. Rights

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 93-100

  12. Strategy-Proofness

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 101-118

  13. Counterthreats

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 119-132

  14. Approval Voting

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 133-143

  15. Mistakes

    • Jerry S. Kelly
    Pages 144-150

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 151-165
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About this book

This is a textbook introducing selected topics in formal social choice theory. Social choice theory studies group choices that are based on information about preferences of members of the group (voting rules being one important special case). This involves economics, which provides the method of modelling individual decision making; political philosophy, which provides criteria about the allocation of decision-influencing power; and game theory, which provides a framework for thinking about the strategies individuals employ in trying to influence the group choice. The goal of this book is to take basic ideas like impossibility theorems, rights exercising and strategy proofness and give the student just enough technical background to be able to understand these ideas in a logically rigorous way. This is done through a set of 250 exercises that constitute the heart of the book and which differentiate this book from all other texts in social choice theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

    Jerry S. Kelly

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Choice Theory

  • Book Subtitle: An Introduction

  • Authors: Jerry S. Kelly

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09925-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-09927-8Published: 14 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-09925-4Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 165

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economics, general

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