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Toward a Human-Centered Economy and Politics: The Theory of Justice as Fairness from Rawls to Sen
In this paper, I present the suggestion that a suitable theory of “justice as fairness” could offer a consistent path for solving many issues related to the actual crisis of the classical liberal model of economy and democracy, by substituting the ...
Alfonso D’Amodio
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Linking Neutrosophic AHP and Neutrosophic Social Choice Theory for Group Decision Making [PDF]
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a decision-making technique that has been widely studied and developed by the scientific community. The interest in this tool is because it combines scientific rigor with the simplicity of its application. Additionally,
Sharon Dinarza Álvarez Gómez+2 more
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Social choice theory, game theory, and positive political theory [PDF]
We consider the relationships between the collective preference and non-cooperative game theory approaches to positive political theory. In particular, we show that an apparently decisive difference between the two approachesthat in sufficiently complex ...
Austen-Smith, David, Banks, Jeffrey S.
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Inductive Reasoning in Social Choice Theory [PDF]
The usual procedure in the theory of social choice consists in postulating some desirable properties which an aggregation procedure should verify and derive from them the features of a corresponding social choice function and the outcomes that arise at each possible profile of preferences. In this paper we invert this line of reasoning and try to infer,
Federico Fioravanti+4 more
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Selection of subcontractors using ordinal ranking methods based on Condorcet approach
A choice of a subcontractor may have critical impact on realization of the project, it has influence on the cost, duration, and quality. Selection of the best sucontractor can be defined as multiple criteria decision making problem (MCDM) of choosing a ...
Sławomir Biruk, Piotr Jaśkowski
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Cycles in Team Tennis and Other Paired-Element Contests
Team Tennis competitions produce aggregate scores for teams, and thus team rankings, based on head-to-head matchups of individual team members. Similar scoring rules can be used to rank any two groups that must be compared on the basis of paired elements.
Shane Sanders+2 more
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Fundamentals of Social Choice Theory [PDF]
This paper offers a short introduction to some of the fundamental results of social choice theory. Topices include: Nash implementability and the Muller-Satterthwaite impossibility theorem, anonymous and neutral social choice correspondences, two-party competition in tournaments, binary agendas and the top cycle, and median voter theorems.
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Evaluating Compromise in Social Choice Functions
We investigate the notion of compromise in the strict preferential voting setting. We introduce divergence as an inverse measure of compromise in a collection of strict preferential votes.
Aleksandar Hatzivelkos, Marcel Maretić
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Rationality and complexity in the work of Elinor Ostrom
What role does the theory of rational choice play in the scientific evolution of the work of Elinor Ostrom? Ostrom accepts, rejects, and makes critical improvements to the prior achievements of the theory of rational choice, in the pursuit of a “creative
Arturo Lara
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Effect of Couple Therapy Based on the Choice Theory on Social Commitment of Couples [PDF]
Background and Objective: Commitment to spouse, marriage, and family is one of the most important factors ensuring the continuity of marriage and strength of family bonds that has attracted considerable attention in the contemporary family and marriage ...
Hossein Abbasi +3 more
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