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...

It has been a standard result of the stochastic, or probabilistic, spatial model of voting that vote maximizing candidates, or parties, will converge to the electoral mean (the origin). This conclusion has appeared to be contradicted by empirical studies.Here, a more general stochastic model,...

Olson has argued that rational, self-interested individuals will not act to achieve their common goal or to satisfy their collective interests. Hardin interpreted the argument in terms of the classical prisoner's dilemma and offered a solution whereby the majority choice of the group would...