Results 321 to 330 of about 2,854,644 (345)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Rational Choice Theory as Social Physics
Critical Review, 1995Donald Green and Ian Shapiro discover a curious gulf between the prestige of rational choice approaches and the dearth of solid empirical findings. But we can understand neither the prestige of rational choice theory nor its pathologies unless we see it as a variant of the equilibrium analysis found in physics, economics, and biology.
openaire +2 more sources
Topological Theories of Social Choice
2011This chapter presents a simple introduction to the main results in topological social choice theory. Given a continuous social welfare function, these results show the following: (i) Unanimity and Anonymity are incompatible; (ii) Weak Pareto and No Veto are incompatible; and (iii) Weak Pareto implies the existence of a Strategic Manipulator.
openaire +2 more sources
Liberalism in the Theory of Social Choice
The Review of Economic Studies, 1976There is an extensive literature concerning the conditions necessary for the existence of a social welfare function (see e.g. [1]) or a social choice function (see e.g. [4]) in the absence of 'any explicit principle of " Liberalism"; to this discussion we attempt no addition.
openaire +2 more sources
Rights and the Theory of Social Choice
1982Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the rights and the theory of social choice. The first libertarian claim is that for each person, there are features of the world that are his business alone, and if two histories differ only in one of those features, that person is morally decisive between them. This first libertarian claim expresses a part of
openaire +2 more sources
Social Choice Theory and Practice
1989The area of social choice (SC) as traditionally conceived deals with a community making a decision starting from and taking into account the preferences of its members. The preferences of the individuals being diverse and the decision sought by the community being unique, SC constitutes a conflict of kind (b).
openaire +2 more sources
1988
Social Choice Theory is the study of systems and institutions for making collective choices, choices that affect a group of people.
openaire +2 more sources
Social Choice Theory is the study of systems and institutions for making collective choices, choices that affect a group of people.
openaire +2 more sources
The Functions of Social Choice Theory
1997Social choice theory was intended to provide a rational framework for decisions that, for whatever reason, have to be made collectively. The paradigmatic example was election of officials, but this was intended only to exemplify the issue. Indeed, the real purpose was to analyze policy decisions. A candidate was thought of primarily as an embodiment of
openaire +2 more sources
An approach to social choice theory
2019[en] This work is an overview of Social Choice Theory. Social Choice Theory is a theoretical framework to analyse the combination of individual preferences and interests of a collectivity to reach a collective decision. For example, we could have a group of people choosing between budgets, or electing a candidate for an organization.
openaire +1 more source
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory
The British Journal of Sociology, 1990Barry Hindess, D. S. King
openaire +4 more sources
The Origins of Social Choice Theory
2008The term “social choice” originated with Arrow’s (1951) theoretical analysis of the problem of aggregating the transitive preferences of individuals into a transitive collective preference outcome. The concept of social choice is also associated with “collective choice” analysis rooted in an economic analysis of the logic of democratic consent found in
openaire +2 more sources