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....

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms. Featuring papers from all fields of social choice and game theory, it presents probability arguments to allow readers to gain a better understanding of the...

Main description: Am 6. April 2004 vollendet Professor Heinz Grossekettler sein 65. Lebensjahr. Zu diesem Anlass widmen ihm Freunde, Schüler und wissenschaftliche Wegbegleiter diese Festschrift.Heinz Grossekettler hat sich in seiner wissenschaftlichen Laufbahn mit einem breiten Spektrum...