The theory of committees and elections
By: by Duncan Black. And Committee decisions with complementary valuation / by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing.
Contributors: Newing, R. A.; McLean, Iain.; McMillan, Alistair.; Monroe, Burt L.
Edition: Rev. 2nd eds. / edited by Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan, and Burt L. Monroe ; with a foreword by Ronald H. Coase.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
Subjects: Voting; Elections; Social choice
Description: By publishing this work in one single volume, one can witness the tremendous contributions made by Duncan Black to public choice and social choice. This includes the median voter theory, "cyclical majorities", voting rules and strategic behavior, multidimensional spatial theory, and determining preferences from ballots. This volume should be required reading for all scholars and students of formal political science, public choice or social choice theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theory of committees and elections originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1958; Committee decisions with complementary valuation originally published: Edinburgh : W. Hodge, 1951.