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Title Collective decision making : views from social choice and game theory / Adrian Van Deemen, Agnieszka Rusinowska, editors
Published Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, [2010]
©2010

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Description xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Theory and decision library. Series C, Game theory, mathematical programming and operations research, 0924-6126 ; v. 43
Theory and decision library. Series C, Game theory, mathematical programming, and operations research ; v. 43
Contents From Black's Advice and Arrow's Theorem to the Gibbard-Satterthewaite Result -- The Impact of Forcing Preferences Rankings when Indifference Exists -- Connections and Implications of the Ostrogorski Paradox for Spatial Voting Models -- Maximal Domain for Maskin Monotone Pareto Optimal and Anonymous Choice Rules -- Extremal Restriction, Condorcet Sets, and Majority Decision Making -- Rights Revisited, and Limited -- Some General Results on Responsibility for Outcomes -- Existence of a Dictatorial Subgropu in Social Choice with Independent Subgroup Utility Scales, an Alternative Proof -- Makint (Non-Standard) Choices -- Puzzles and Paradoxes Involving Averages -- Voting Weights, Thresholds and Population Size -- Stabilizing Power Sharing -- Different Approaches to Influence Based on Social Networks and Simple Games -- Networks, Information and Choice -- Characterizations of Bargaining Solutions by Properties of Their Status Quo Sets -- Monotonicity Properties of Interval Solutions and the Dutta-Ray-Solution for Convex Interval Games
Summary This book discusses collective decision making from the perspective of social choice and game theory. The chapters are written by well-known scholars in the field. The topics range from Arrow's Theorem to the Condorcet and Ostrogorski Paradoxes, from vote distributions in the European Council to influence processes and information sharing in collective decision making networks; from cardinal utility to restricted domains for social welfare functions; from rights and game forms to responsibility in committee decision making; and from dueling to bargaining. The book reflects the richness and diversity of the field of collective decision making and shows the usefulness and adequacy of social choice and game theory for the study of it. It starts with typical social choice themes like Arrow's Theorem and ends with typical game theoretical topics, like bargaining and interval games. In between there is a mixture of views on collective decision making in which both social choice and game theoretic aspects are brought in. The book is dedicated to Harrie de Swart, who organized the well-known Social Choice Colloquia at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands
Notes Festschrift for Harrie de Swart
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Game theory.
Group decision making -- Mathematical models.
Group decision making.
Social choice.
Author Deemen, Ad M. A. van.
Rusinowska, Agnieszka, 1969-
LC no. 2010925110
ISBN 3642028640 (hbk.)
3642028659 (e-ISBN)
9783642028649 (hbk.)
9783642028656 (eISBN)