Social Choice and Democracy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Introduction

   • Norman James Schofield

   Pages 1-23

3. Social Choice

   • Norman James Schofield

   Pages 24-62

4. Voting Rules

   • Norman James Schofield

   Pages 63-104

5. The Core

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   Pages 105-153

6. Local Cycles

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   Pages 154-198

7. Structural Stability

   • Norman James Schofield

   Pages 199-253

8. Classification of Voting Rules

   • Norman James Schofield

   Pages 254-282

9. Democratic Theory

   • Norman James Schofield

   Pages 283-299

10. Back Matter

    Pages 300-321

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The mathematical theory of voting has intellectual roots extending back two centuries to the writings of Borda and Condorcet. Yet it has only been in the last forty years that general theorems have begun to emerge. With the publication of this volume, Norman Schofield brings the results together in a ,common framework. SOCIAL CHOICE AND DEMOCRACY, however, is not merely a synthetic exercise, for Schofield's own work over the last decade has constituted a major initiative in deepening and' broadening our general understanding of voting arrangements. At last the results of his research, bits and pieces of which have been reported in a number of journals of international standing and in various collections, are coherently and systematically presented as an entirety. For students of democracy -- chiefly philosophers and political scientists, but increasingly economists as well -- the insights of this volume are profound. From it I infer the following.

• Choice
• rational choice
• research
• social choice
• stability
• value-at-risk

• Department of Economics, University of Essex, Colchester,Essex, England

  Norman James Schofield

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