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The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing: (English)

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This volume brings together and updates the classic work of the late Scottish political economist Duncan Black. It contains a revision of both "The Theory of Committees" and "Elections", and "Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation" (with R.A. Newing) based on the notes and annotations of Duncan Black before his death in 1991. The work is then extended by the addition of five related manuscripts and a complete bibliography of this work. By publishing this work in one single volume, one can witness the contributions made by Duncan Black to public choice and social choice. This includes the median voter theory, "cyclical majorities", voting rules and strategic behaviour, multidimensional spatial theory, and determining preferences from ballots. This volume should be required reading for all scholars and students of formal political science, public choice or social choice theory.

Table of Contents:
1 The Theory of Committees and Elections.- 1 A Committee and Motions.- 2 Independent Valuation.- 3 Can a Motion be Represented by the same Symbol on Different Schedules?.- 4 A Committee using a Simple Majority: Single-peaked Preference Curves.- 5 A Committee using a Simple Majority: other Shapes of Preference Curves.- 6 A Committee using a Simple Majority: any Shapes of Preference Curves, Number of Motions Finite.- 7 Cyclical Majorities.- 8 When the Ordinary Committee Procedure is in use the Members’ Scales of Valuation may be Incomplete.- 9 Which is the most suitable Method of Election?.- 10 Examination of some Methods of Election in Single-member Constituencies.- 11 Proportional Representation.- 12 The Decisions of a Committee using a Special Majority.- 13 The Elasticity of Committee Decisions with an Altering Size of Majority.- 14 The Elasticity of Committee Decisions with alterations in the Members’ Preference Schedules.- 15 The Converse Problem: the Group of Schedules to Correspond to a Given Voting Matrix.- 16 A Committee using a Simple Majority: Complementary Motions.- 17 International Agreements, Sovereignty and the Cabinet.- 2 History of the Mathematical Theory of Committees and Elections (excluding proportional representation).- 18 Borda, Condorcet and Laplace.- 19 E. J. Nanson and Francis Galton.- 20 The Circumstances in which Rev. C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) wrote his Three Pamphlets.- 21 Appendix: Text of Dodgson’s Three Pamphlets and of ‘The Cyclostyled Sheet’.- 3 Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation.- Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation.- 4 Related Papers.- Appendix 1 On Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem.- Appendix 2 The Unity of Political and Economic Science.- Appendix 3 Transitivity and non-transitivity ofMajorities.- Appendix 4 Partial Justification of the Borda Count.- Appendix 5 Arrow’s work and the Normative Theory of Committees.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780792381105
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0792381106
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 457
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 906 gr


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