Logic and Social Choice (RLE Social Theory)
Logic and Social Choice (RLE Social Theory)

Author: Yasusuke Murakami

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1317651561

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How is a social decision made out of individual members' decisions? This is one of the primary questions in the social sciences. Logic and Social Choice provides an answer to the topic by the application of mathematical logic. Yasusuke Murakami formulates social decision-making in logical terms, and shows that an analysis of social decision is equivalent to a logical calculus in many-valued logic. The logical conditions are then derived for various types of societies, especially for democracy. This foundation enables the author to discuss such topics as the relation between direct democracy and the representative system, a comparison of various rules of election, and the stability of social decision. The main conclusion is that inconsistency or paradox is inherent not only in voting and in democracy itself, but also in any piecemeal social decision-making.

Logic and Social Choice (Rle Social Theory)
Logic and Social Choice (Rle Social Theory)

Author: Yasusuke Murakami

Publisher: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781138980013

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How is a social decision made out of individual members' decisions? This is one of the primary questions in the social sciences. Logic and Social Choice provides an answer to the topic by the application of mathematical logic. Yasusuke Murakami formulates social decision-making in logical terms, and shows that an analysis of social decision is equivalent to a logical calculus in many-valued logic. The logical conditions are then derived for various types of societies, especially for democracy. This foundation enables the author to discuss such topics as the relation between direct democracy and the representative system, a comparison of various rules of election, and the stability of social decision. The main conclusion is that inconsistency or paradox is inherent not only in voting and in democracy itself, but also in any piecemeal social decision-making.

Logic and Social Choice (RLE Social Theory)
Logic and Social Choice (RLE Social Theory)

Author: Yasusuke Murakami

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 131765157X

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How is a social decision made out of individual members' decisions? This is one of the primary questions in the social sciences. Logic and Social Choice provides an answer to the topic by the application of mathematical logic. Yasusuke Murakami formulates social decision-making in logical terms, and shows that an analysis of social decision is equivalent to a logical calculus in many-valued logic. The logical conditions are then derived for various types of societies, especially for democracy. This foundation enables the author to discuss such topics as the relation between direct democracy and the representative system, a comparison of various rules of election, and the stability of social decision. The main conclusion is that inconsistency or paradox is inherent not only in voting and in democracy itself, but also in any piecemeal social decision-making.

Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory)
Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory)

Author: S.I. Benn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1317651278

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The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formation of hypotheses, models and explanations are explored in this collection of original papers by a number of distinguished philosophers and social scientists. The aim of the book is to display the variety of the concepts used, to show the different roles they play in theories of very different kinds over a wide range of disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology, political science and anthropology, and to assess the explanatory and predictive power that a theory can draw from such concepts.

Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought (RLE Social Theory)
Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought (RLE Social Theory)

Author: Miriam Glucksmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1317650697

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The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework in the social sciences. The author focuses on two major structuralist thinkers, Louis Althusser and Claude Lévi-Strauss. She analyses and compares the structure of their theory, and places them within the context of their respective disciplines. Dr Glucksmann began working on this book at a time when structuralism was at the height of its popularity in France, and was thought to be a homogenous alternative to bourgeois sociology. The progress of her study implicitly reflects the developments and divergences within structuralist thought that have emerged since then. In particular, she examines the differences between the political and philosophical thought of Althusser and Lévi-Strauss, which have become increasingly manifest.

Handbook of Social Choice and Voting
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting

Author: Jac C. Heckelman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-12-18

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1783470739

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This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting that is intended for a broad audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical summaries of the existing literature, including intuitive explanations of technical terminology and well-known theorems, suggesting new directions for research.

Handbook of Computational Social Choice
Handbook of Computational Social Choice

Author: Felix Brandt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-25

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1316489752

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The rapidly growing field of computational social choice, at the intersection of computer science and economics, deals with the computational aspects of collective decision making. This handbook, written by thirty-six prominent members of the computational social choice community, covers the field comprehensively. Chapters devoted to each of the field's major themes offer detailed introductions. Topics include voting theory (such as the computational complexity of winner determination and manipulation in elections), fair allocation (such as algorithms for dividing divisible and indivisible goods), coalition formation (such as matching and hedonic games), and many more. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in computer science, economics, mathematics, political science, and philosophy will benefit from this accessible and self-contained book.

Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

Author: Jason Glynos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-09-12

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1134138369

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This book develops a novel approach to critical explanation as a function of logics, taking a distinctive approach to social science explanation, and political studies more specifically, which avoids the problem of scientism.

Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Collective Choice and Social Welfare

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Harvard University Press

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