Social Choice and Strategic Decisions (eBook)

Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks

David Austen-Smith, John Duggan (Herausgeber)

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2006
XVI, 320 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-27295-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks' research on this subject. It examines the strategic aspects of political decision-making, including the choices of voters in committees, the positioning of candidates in electoral campaigns, and the behavior of parties in legislatures. The chapters of this book contribute to the theory of voting with incomplete information, to the literature on Downsian and probabilistic voting models of elections, to the theory of social choice in distributive environments, and to the theory of optimal dynamic decision-making. The essays employ a spectrum of research methods, from game-theoretic analysis, to empirical investigation, to experimental testing.

Inhalt

Preface 7
Contents 15
Introduction and Overview 17
Probabilistic Voting in the Spatial Model of Elections: The Theory of Office- motivated Candidates 31
Local Political Equilibria 73
Electoral Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality: The Effects of Candidate Ideology and Private Information 109
Party Objectives in the "Divide a Dollar" Electoral Competition 129
Generalized Bandit Problems 147
The Banks Set and the Uncovered Set in Budget Allocation Problems 179
Experiments in Majoritarian Bargaining 217
Legislative Coalitions in a Bargaining Model with Externalities 243
Testing Theories of Lawmaking 265
Deliberation and Voting Rules 285
Index 333

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Choice and Welfare
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Choice and Welfare
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 320 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Bargaining • Decision-Making • Elections • Game Theory • Government • Social Choice • Voting
• ISBN-10: 3-540-27295-X / 354027295X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-27295-3 / 9783540272953