Collective decisions
Defining a collective decision
A taxonomy of collective decision procedures
Economic criteria for evaluating collective decisions
General criteria for evaluating collective decision procedures
Relative advantages of modes of making collective decisions
What is a good collective decision?
Voting
An overview of voting
Majority rule and its weighted analog
Voting cycles
The arrow theorem
Strategic voting and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem
Criteria for evaluating ranking-based vote-processing rules
Vote processing rules for selecting one option from many when votes have predetermined weights : alternatives to plurality
Vote processing rules for selecting one option from a continuum of one or more dimensions when votes have predetermined weights
Vote processing rules for selecting more than one option when votes have predetermined weights : proportional representation
Vote processing rules with endogenous weights for self-interested advocates : revealing intensities of preferences
Lessons from the excursion.
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Collective decisions and voting : the potential for public choice by Nicolaus Tideman. ISBN 9780754647171. Published by Ashgate in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
