Social Choice and Democratic Values
Social Choice and Democratic Values

Author: Eerik Lagerspetz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 3319232614

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This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theory of social choice and the more traditional issues of political theory and philosophy. In this regard, the author eschews a strong methodological commitment or technical formalism; the approach is instead based on the presentation of political facts and illustrated via numerous real-life examples. This allows the reader to get acquainted with the philosophical and political dispute surrounding voting and collective decision-making and its links to social choice theory.

Social Choice and Democracy
Social Choice and Democracy

Author: Norman Schofield

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 3642705960

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The mathematical theory of voting has intellectual roots extending back two centuries to the writings of Borda and Condorcet. Yet it has only been in the last forty years that general theorems have begun to emerge. With the publication of this volume, Norman Schofield brings the results together in a ,common framework. SOCIAL CHOICE AND DEMOCRACY, however, is not merely a synthetic exercise, for Schofield's own work over the last decade has constituted a major initiative in deepening and' broadening our general understanding of voting arrangements. At last the results of his research, bits and pieces of which have been reported in a number of journals of international standing and in various collections, are coherently and systematically presented as an entirety. For students of democracy -- chiefly philosophers and political scientists, but increasingly economists as well -- the insights of this volume are profound. From it I infer the following.

Liberalism against Populism
Liberalism against Populism

Author: William H. Riker

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 1988-07-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1478648708

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The discoveries of social choice theory have undermined the simple and unrealistic nineteenth-century notions of democracy, especially the expectation that electoral institutions smoothly translate popular will directly into public policy. One response to these discoveries is to reject democracy out of hand. Another, which is the program of this book, is to save democracy by formulating more realistic expectations. Hence, this book first summarizes social choice theory in order to explain the full force of its critique. Then it explains, in terms of social choice theory, how politics and public issues change and develop. Finally, it reconciles democratic ideals with this new understanding of politics.

Political Institutions
Political Institutions

Author: Josep M. Colomer

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-02-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780191529252

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The role of institutions is to establish the domains of public activity and the rules to select leaders. Democratic regimes organize in simple institutional frameworks to foster the concentration of power and alternative successive absolute winners and losers. They favour political satisfaction of relatively small groups, as well as policy instability. In contrast, pluralistic institutions produce multiple winners, including multiparty co-operation and agreements. They favour stable, moderate, and consensual policies that can satisfy large groups' interests on a great number of issues. The more complex the political institutions, the more stable and socially efficient the outcome will be. This book develops an extensive analysis of this relationship. It explores concepts, questions and insights based on social choice theory, while empirical focus is cast on more than 40 democratic countries and a few international organizations from late medieval times to the present. The book argues that pluralistic democratic institutions are judged to be better than simple formula of their higher capacity of producing socially satisfactory results.

Democratic Planning and Social Choice Dilemmas
Democratic Planning and Social Choice Dilemmas

Author: Tore Sager

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-24

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1000152251

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Using the economic approach of social choice theory, this unique book examines difficulties found in democratic processes involved in the creation and implementation of planning policies. Social choice theory focuses on the hard trade-offs to be made between rationality in decision-making on the one hand, and political values such as democracy, liberalism and freedom from manipulation on the other. As an institution can be seen as a set of rules, the focus on rules and procedures of collective choice makes social choice theory well suited for analysing important political aspects of planning institutions. Special attention is given to communicative planning and the logical reasons why all the desirable properties of dialogue cannot be simultaneously attained. The analysis provides original and significant new insights into the process and the institutions involved. It highlights weak spots of present planning techniques and procedures and suggests further steps towards institutionally enriched planning theory.

Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy
Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy

Author: S.M. Amadae

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2003-10-15

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0226016544

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Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but also how those ideas may today be undermining the very notion of individual liberty they were created to defend.

Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Collective Choice and Social Welfare

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0674919211

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Originally published in 1970, this classic study has been recognized for its groundbreaking role in integrating economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new areas of research in social choice, including aggregative assessment. It has also had a large influence on international organizations, including the United Nations, notably in its work on human development. The book showed that the "impossibility theorems" in social choice theory--led by the pioneering work of Kenneth Arrow--do not negate the possibility of reasoned and democratic social choice. Sen's ideas about social choice, welfare economics, inequality, poverty, and human rights have continued to evolve since the book's first appearance. This expanded edition preserves the text of the original while presenting eleven new chapters of fresh arguments and results. "Expanding on the early work of Condorcet, Pareto, Arrow, and others, Sen provides rigorous mathematical argumentation on the merits of voting mechanisms...For those with graduate training, it will serve as a frequently consulted reference and a necessity on one's book shelf." --J. F. O'Connell, Choice

Social Choice Theory
Social Choice Theory

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2024-08-07

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13:

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Explore the complexities of decision-making with "Social Choice Theory," a key volume in the "Political Science" series. This book delves into how societies make collective choices and the underlying mathematical and philosophical foundations. Essential for those interested in governance, policy, and democratic processes, it provides a thorough examination of key concepts and theories in social choice. Each chapter builds on the last, covering topics such as: 1. Social Choice Theory: Core concepts and significance in collective decision-making. 2. Condorcet Paradox: The issue of intransitive collective preferences. 3. Pareto Efficiency: Evaluating outcomes where no one can be better off without harming others. 4. Kenneth Arrow: Contributions to social choice theory. 5. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Challenges in creating a fair voting system. 6. Social Welfare Function: Aggregating individual preferences into collective decisions. 7. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives: Ensuring choices are unaffected by irrelevant alternatives. 8. Gibbard–Satterthwaite Theorem: Limitations of strategic voting. 9. Welfare Economics: Improving social welfare through resource allocation. 10. Expected Utility Hypothesis: Decision-making to maximize expected utility. 11. Liberal Paradox: Tension between individual rights and collective decision-making. 12. Lexicographic Preferences: Ranking and decision-making processes. 13. Social Choice and Individual Values: Aligning personal preferences with collective decisions. 14. Quasitransitive Relation: Implications for preference aggregation. 15. Extended Sympathy: Understanding preferences and social choice. 16. Economic Justice: Relevance to equitable decision-making. 17. Preference (Economics): Modeling preferences and their impact. 18. Kevin W. S. Roberts: Contributions to social choice theory. 19. Prasanta Pattanaik: Influence on the field. 20. Jury Theorem: Conditions for accurate collective decisions. 21. Fractional Social Choice: Incorporating partial preferences into decision-making. An invaluable resource for professionals, students, and enthusiasts, this book offers deep insights into social choice theory and its applications, making it a must-have for any political science library.

Social Choice and Individual Values
Social Choice and Individual Values

Author: Kenneth Joseph Arrow

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1963-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780300013641

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The literature on the theory of social choice has grown considerably beyond the few items in existence at the time the first edition of this book appeared in 1951. Some of the new literature has dealt with the technical, mathematical aspects, more with the interpretive. My own thinking has also evolved somewhat, although I remain far from satisfied with present formulations. The exhaustion of the first edition provides a convenient time for a selective and personal stocktaking in the form of an appended commentary entitled, 'Notes on the Theory of Social Choice, 1963, ' containing reflections on the text and its omissions and on some of the more recent literature. This form has seemed more appropriate than a revision of the original text, which has to some extent acquired a life of its own.

Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation
Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation

Author: Alan D. Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-05-09

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0521810523

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Honesty in voting, it turns out, is not always the best policy. Indeed, in the early 1970s, Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, building on the seminal work of Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, proved that with three or more alternatives there is no reasonable voting system that is non-manipulable; voters will always have an opportunity to benefit by submitting a disingenuous ballot. The ensuing decades produced a number of theorems of striking mathematical naturality that dealt with the manipulability of voting systems. This 2005 book presents many of these results from the last quarter of the twentieth century, especially the contributions of economists and philosophers, from a mathematical point of view, with many new proofs. The presentation is almost completely self-contained, and requires no prerequisites except a willingness to follow rigorous mathematical arguments. Mathematics students, as well as mathematicians, political scientists, economists and philosophers will learn why it is impossible to devise a completely unmanipulable voting system.