Collective decisions and voting : the potential for public choice /
Tideman, Nicolaus.
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-331) and index.
Collective decisions -- Defining a collective decision -- A taxonomy of collective decision procedures -- Economic criteria for evaluating collective decisions -- General criteria for evaluating collective decision procedures -- Relative advantages of modes of making collective decisions -- What is a good collective decision? -- Voting -- An overview of voting -- Majority rule and its weighted analog -- Voting cycles -- The arrow theorem -- Strategic voting and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem -- Criteria for evaluating ranking-based vote-processing rules -- Vote processing rules for selecting one option from many when votes have predetermined weights : alternatives to plurality -- Vote processing rules for selecting one option from a continuum of one or more dimensions when votes have predetermined weights -- Vote processing rules for selecting more than one option when votes have predetermined weights : proportional representation -- Vote processing rules with endogenous weights for self-interested advocates : revealing intensities of preferences -- Lessons from the excursion.
Voting.
Group decision making.
Social choice.