Political Institutions - Democracy and Social Choice

Zusatztext The author's erudition! along with his masterful application of social choice theory! make this book compulsory reading for students of comparative politics and constitutional law. Informationen zum Autor Professor of Political Science and Economics at the Higher Council of Scientific Research and the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Klappentext More complex political institutions produce more stable and socially efficient the outcomes; this book develops an extensive analysis of that relationship. It explores concepts! questions! and insights based on social choice theory! focusing on more than forty democratic countries and several international organizations from late medieval times to the present. Zusammenfassung This ambitious and ground-breaking book provides a broad-ranging and engaging introduction to the application of social choice theory to real world political institutions Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Politics and Social Choice 2: Who Can Vote 3: How Votes are Counted 4: What is Voted For 5: Choosing Socially Effective Institutions

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• Authors: Josep H. Colomer, Josep M. Colomer, Josep M. ( Colomer, Josep M. (Pompeu Fabra University Colomer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2003
• EAN: 9780199241842
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924184-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics (Paperbac; Comparative Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education