Social Choice and Strategic Decisions
Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks (Studies in Choice and Welfare)
Contributors: David Austen-Smith (Editor); John Duggan (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9783540220534
Subjects: Central government policies; Economic theory & philosophy; Political Science; Economics - Theory; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Mathematics / Game Theory; Decision making; Game Theory; Public Policy - General; Methodology
First sentence: The spatial model of elections, originating in the work of Hotelling [19], Downs [12], and Black [8], is perhaps the simplest formalization of democratic politics: each of two candidates adopt policy platforms before an election, voters cast their votes, and the winner implements his or her platform.