Social Choice Theory
PP 2012 03: Logic and Social Choice Theory
... in social choice theory and computational social choice in which formal logic plays a central ...of social choice theory in a suitable logic, ...of social ...
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Avoiding predicate whiplash: social choice theory and linguistic vagueness
... of social choice theory. Social choice theory is the branch of economics that has to do with aggregating a number of preferences into one preference, as when many voters select a ...
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PP 2014 17: Social Choice Theory as a Foundation for Multiagent Systems
... clients. Social choice theory offers a number of useful definitions for how to make the vague notion of fairness precise in the context of resource allocation ...
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Mean median compromise method as an innovating voting rule in social choice theory
... MMCM still fulfills more other criteria which were not referred to in this article. For example, it is more likely strategy-proof than BMC or any other form of voting based on the summation or the average of grades. ...
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PP 2016 17: Proving Classical Theorems of Social Choice Theory in Modal Logic
... this choice allows for a particularly compact presentation of our assump- ...of social choice theory. Our logic of choice is a fragment of the modal logic of social choice ...
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Social choice theory and deliberative democracy : a reconciliation. John S. Dryzek and Christian List
... Knight and Johnson recognize that “the standard claim that deliberation aims at preference transformation appears … either too strong or beside the point. It is too strong if it requires convergent, homogeneous ...
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Two essays in social choice theory
... In the first part of this thesis we characterize solution concepts that imple ment only monotonie social choice rules. In the context of what has been said above, what we accomplish is to characterize ...
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Compromises Between Cardinality and Ordinality in Preference Theory and Social Choice
... preference theory should be based solely on ordinal assumptions, utilitarianism is necessarily a cardinal ...formal social choice theory concentrates on the standard set of measurement ...
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Salience and Social Choice
... utility theory have been tested extensively. In contrast, the axioms of social welfare functions have only been tested in a few questionnaire studies involving choices between hypothetical income ...of ...
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A reason based theory of rational choice
... our theory – to be fundamental and unchangeable and thus cannot explain how deliberation, either within an individual or in a group, could ever lead to any revisions of those ...from social choice ...
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Random Utility Theory for Social Choice
... which further increases the scalability of our method. We generally assume that the data provides total orders on alternatives from voters, but comment on how to extend the method and theory to the case where the ...
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Figure Skating and the Theory of Social Choice
... preferences are sufficiently similar, a variety of voting systems lead to similar choices, and these choices have desirable properties. The difficulties in aggregating preferences would arise when there is a lack of ...
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Rational Choice Theory and Social Solidarity
... rational choice theory of New Order regime and the social solidarity of the popular uprising in the Indonesian ...rational choice institutionalism and social soli- darity will be the ...
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The Theory of Implementation of Social Choice Rules
... a social choice rule is called monotonicity (defined in Subsection ...every social rule, as long as it satisfies a basic ordinality condition, is ap- proximately implementable in Nash ...
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Experimentation versus Theory Choice: A Social-epistemological Account
... Other biologists that time, too, thought of Mendelian genetics as some kind of laboratory artifact that may be interesting, but not relevant for understanding evolution or development. How was this initial opposition ...
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Rational Choice Theory: Toward a Psychological, Social, and Material Contextualization of Human Choice Behavior
... the social system or situation in which they act ...rational choice theory as a social science methodology is that the aggregate behavior in society reflects the sum of the choices made by ...
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Social choice and game theory: recent results with a topological approach
... Social choice and game theory: recent results with a topological approach.. Chichilnisky, Graciela[r] ...
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Rational Choice, Deterrence, and Social Learning Theory in Criminology: The Path Not Taken
... A rapidly developing body of literature on rational choice, while rec- ognizing links to deterrence theory and proposing links to social control theory, has largely ignor[r] ...
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Logical Theory Choice
... The antecedents are necessarily false—or so we may assume. Some hold that such counterfactuals are vacuously true, appearances notwithstanding. Let us call such people vacuists. Others hold that some counterfactuals with ...
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Theory Choice and the Intransitivity of Is a Better Theory Than *
... 3. Second Step: Further Aspects and Some Objections. One could object that the above comparison of the three theories neglects the possibility that, e.g., the difference in explanatory power between A and C might be much ...
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