chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Social Choice -- chapter 3 Voting Rules -- chapter 4 The Core -- chapter 5 The Heart -- chapter 6 A Spatial Model of Coalition -- chapter 7 A Spatial Model of Elections -- chapter 8 Activist Coalitions -- chapter 9 Coalitions in the United States -- chapter 10...

This volume is intended to provide a broad perspective on collective decision-making, presenting economic and political aspects from both a theoretical and empirical viewpoint. The four chapters in the first section of the book give new results in Social Choice Theory, showing how the Arrow...

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy. Modern political economy has implied the interaction between politics and economics to understand political, electoral and public issues in different nations,...