Books in the Studies in Choice and Welfare series

This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theory of social choice and the more traditional issues of political theory and philosophy.

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory.

This book advances the concept of representativeness, and shows how it can be applied in a mathematical evaluation of either individual representatives such as a president, or representative bodies such as parliaments or councils of ministers.

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshe Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others are revisited.

This monograph provides a detailed analysis on fair queueing rules from a normative, a strategic, and a non-cooperative viewpoint. The queueing problem is concerned with the following situation: There is a group of agents who must be served in a facility. The facility can handle only one agent at a time and agents incur waiting costs.

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.