Positive Political Theory I

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-472-08721-1
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Michigan Studies in Political Analysis

Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular on the extent to which any aggregation method is assured to yield a set of "best" alternatives. The book is intended both as a contribution to the theory of collective choice and a pedagogic tool. Austen-Smith and Banks have made the exposition both rigorous and accessible to people with some technical background (e.g., a course in multivariate calculus). The intended readership ranges from more technically-oriented graduate students and specialists to those students in economics and political science interested less in the technical aspects of the results than in the depth, scope, and importance of the theoretical advances in positive political theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Austen-Smith, David

Über Autor(innen)

David Austen-Smith is Earl Dean Howard Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Political Science and Economics at Northwestern University. Jeffrey S. Banks is Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology.