I Preliminaries: Introduction -- Abstract Social Choiuce Problems and Concrete Resource Allocation Problems -- Describing an Allocation Problem: a Checklist -- II Axiom Types: Axiom Format -- Axiom Content: Delineating Broad Categories -- Axiom Content: Punctual Requirements on Welfare...

This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies. Both individual representatives and representative bodies are evaluated using the indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on topical...

Part I. Description of Delegate Allocation Rules -- Chapter 1. Apportionment in the US Presidential Primaries -- Chapter 2. The Democratic Party Primary -- Chapter 3. The Iowa and Nevada Democratic Caucuses -- Chapter 4. The Republican Party Primary -- Part II. Analysis of Delegate Allocation...

A Brief History of Social Choice and Welfare Theory -- Kenneth J. Arrow -- John C. Harsanyi -- Paul A. Samuelson -- Amartya K. Sen -- Salvador Barberà -- John Broome -- Gabrielle Demange -- David Donaldson -- Peter C. Fishburn -- Allan Gibbard -- Peter J. Hammond -- Prasanta K. Pattanaik --...

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....

An Introduction to Social Ethics and Normative Economics -- Kolm as a Contributor to Public Utility Pricing, Second-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation -- Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand -- Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable -- Inequality...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Social Choice -- Chapter 2. Building Bridges over the Great Divide -- Chapter 3. Social Unacceptability for Simple Voting Procedures -- Chapter 4. Probability of Majority Inversion with Three States and Interval Preferences -- Chapter 5. Strategic Voting and...

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices -...