Fuzzy Social Choice Models

Explaining the Government Formation Process

Peter C. Casey, Michael B. Gibilisco, Carly A. Goodman, Kelly Nelson Pook, John N. Mordeson, Mark J. Wierman, Terry D. Clark (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 183 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-35673-0 (ISBN)

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This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set of alternatives from which collective choices are made. The book presents empirical findings achieved by the authors in their efforts to predict the outcome of government formation processes in European parliamentary and semi-presidential systems. Using data from the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP), the authors propose a new approach that reinterprets error in the coding of CMP data as ambiguity in the actual political positions of parties on the policy dimensions being coded. The range of this error establishes parties' fuzzy preferences. The set of possible outcomes in the process of government formation is then calculated on the basis of both the fuzzy Pareto set and the fuzzy maximal set, and the predictions are compared with those made by two conventional approaches as well as with the government that was actually formed. The comparison shows that, in most cases, the fuzzy approaches outperform their conventional counterparts.

A Fuzzy Public Choice Model.- Fuzzy Preferences: Extraction from Data and Their Use in Public Choice Models.- Fuzzy Single-Dimensional Public Choice Models.- Fuzzy Single-Dimensional Models.- Multi-Dimensional Models.- Government Formation Process.- The Beginnings of a Weighted Model & New Frontiers.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 183 p. 29 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Technik
Schlagworte	Artificial Intelligence • CMP project • Collective choices • Comparative Manifesto Project • Computational Intelligence • Engineering • Engineering: general • Fuzzy maximal set • Fuzzy multi-dimensional models • Fuzzy one-dimensional models • Fuzzy preferences • Fuzzy public choice models • Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences • Maths for scientists • Political Science • Political science and theory • Public Choice Theory • Weighted fuzzy models
ISBN-10	3-319-35673-9 / 3319356739
ISBN-13	978-3-319-35673-0 / 9783319356730
Zustand	Neuware