Committees Agendas & Voting (Paperback)

"Committees, Agendas and Voting" surveys the formal literature on committee voting that builds on the pioneering work of Duncan Black and Robin Farquharson, literature which has developed within the framework of economic theory, game theory, social choice theory and spatial voting theory.
The text is technically precise but at the same time accessible, and is carried forward by numerous examples. The chapters focus on vote counting rules, voting agendas, voter preferences, sincere and sophisticated voting strategies, solution sets, voting outcomes, agendas control, and agenda formation. The author himself has made prior research contributions to a number of these topics.
What happens when one group of individuals must collectively choose, by means of voting, one alternative out of a larger set of alternatives, concerning which they may have conflicting opinions? This is the voting problem. Committee voting is voting of the parliamentary type, in which collective choice proceeds through a

General

Imprint:	Harwood-Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	November 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	Nicholas R. Miller
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	172
ISBN-13:	978-3-7186-5569-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Public opinion & polls
LSN:	3-7186-5569-1
Barcode:	9783718655694

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