POSITIVE POLITICAL THEORY I by David Austen-Smith, Jeffrey S. Banks ( 9780472087211 )

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Title:

POSITIVE POLITICAL THEORY I
COLLECTIVE PREFERENCE

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By:

David Austen-Smith, Jeffrey S. Banks

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0472087215

ISBN 13:

9780472087211

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS

Pub. date:

31 August, 2000

Series:

Michigan Studies in Political Analysis

Pages:

224

Description:

A definitive, comprehensive, and analytically sophisticated treatment of the theory of collective preference

Synopsis:

Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular on the extent to which any aggregation method is assured to yield a set of "best" alternatives. The book is intended both as a contribution to the theory of collective choice and a pedagogic tool.Austen-Smith and Banks have made the exposition both rigorous and accessible to people with some technical background (e.g., a course in multivariate calculus). The intended readership ranges from more technically-oriented graduate students and specialists to those students in economics and political science interested less in the technical aspects of the results than in the depth, scope, and importance of the theoretical advances in positive political theory."This is a stunning book. Austen-Smith and Banks have a deep understanding of the material, and their text gives a powerfully unified and coherent perspective on a vast literature. The exposition is clear-eyed and efficient but never humdrum. Even those familiar with the subject will find trenchant remarks and fresh insights every few pages. Anyone with an interest in contemporary liberal democratic theory will want this book on the shelf." --Christopher Achen, University of MichiganDavid Austen-Smith is Professor of Political Science, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University. Jeffrey S. Banks is Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology.

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The University of Michigan Press

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