Disposing Dictators, Demystifying Voting Paradoxes: Social Choice Analysis

by Donald G. Saari

Book Overview

We decide by elections, but do we elect who the voters really want? The answer, as we have learned over the last two centuries, is "not necessarily." What a negative, frightening assertion about a principal tool of democracy This negativism has been supported by two hundred years of published results showing how bad the situation can be. This expository, largely non-technical book is the first to find positive results showing that the situation is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521516056
• ISBN13: 9780521516051
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"