Choosing in Groups

Auteur

Michael C. Munger is a Professor of Political Science and Economics and the Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at Duke University. He formerly served as a staff economist at the US Federal Trade Commission. He has published four books and has written for the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Politics. He was North American editor of Public Choice from 2006 to 2010 and is a past president of the Public Choice Society. He currently co-edits The Independent Review. Munger has won three teaching awards at Duke, and he gave the 2012 Toby Davis Lecture at George Mason University.

Texte du rabat

This book is an introduction to the logic and analytics of group choice.

Résumé
This book is an introduction to the logic and analytics of group choice. It develops a means of 'representing' the preferences of citizens so that institutions can be studied more carefully.

Contenu

Part I. Basics: 1. The analysis of politics; 2. Becoming a group: the constitution; 3. Choosing in groups: an intuitive presentation; 4. The formal analytics of choosing in groups; Part II. Spatial Theory: 5. Politics as spatial competition; 6. Two dimensions: elusive equilibrium; Part III. Extensions: Collective Choice, Uncertainty, and Collective Action: 7. The collective-choice problem: impossibility; 8. Uncertainty; 9. Voting as a collective-action problem; Solutions to selected problems.