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| Title:
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POSITIVE POLITICAL THEORY
STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE |
| Volume: |
v.2 |
| By: |
David Austen-Smith, Jeffrey S. Banks |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£84.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0472098942 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472098941 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 January, 2005 |
| Series: |
Michigan Studies in Political Analysis |
| Pages: |
472 |
| Description: |
Acknowledgments vii; Preface ix; 1 Preliminaries 1; 1.1 Review 1; 1.2 Decision theory 8; 1.3 Discussion 17; 1.4 Exercises 17; 1.5 Further reading 18; 2 Strategy-Proof Collective Choice 19; 2.1 Strategy- proofness on finite sets 20; 2.2 Application: The amendment rule 29; 2.3 Strategy-proofness and Arrovian aggregation 30; 2. |
| Synopsis: |
A major piece of work . . . a classic. There is noother book like it. Norman Schofield, Washington University The authors succeed brilliantly in tackling a largenumber of important questions concerning theinteraction among voters and elected representativesin the political arena, using a common, rigorouslanguage. Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania Positive Political Theory II: Strategy and Structureis the second volume in Jeffrey Banks and DavidAusten-Smith s monumental study of the linksbetween individual preferences and collective choice.The book focuses on representative systems, includingboth elections and legislative decision-makingprocesses, clearly connecting individual preferences tocollective outcomes. This book is not a survey. Rather, it is the coherent, cumulative result of the authors brilliant efforts to indirectly connect preferences tocollective choice through strategic behaviors such asagenda-selection and voting. The book will be an invaluable reference and teachingtool for economists and political scientists, and anessential companion to any scholar interested in thelatest theoretical advances in positive political theory. " |
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Illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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