Theory Committees and Elections by Duncan Black

Theory Committees and Elections by Duncan Black

In this book, first published in 1958, the social choice theorist and economist Duncan Black aims to formulate a pure science of politics. Focusing on the mathematics of committees and, accordingly, of elections, Black's writing engages with the theories of Condorcet, Borda and Laplace in order to describe the ways in which different systems of voting will yield different results. This can, as Black discusses in detail, influence whether the chosen candidate or motion is relatively agreeable to all, or only suited to the majority group of voters. Black also presents a history of the political science of elections, placing his own work within the context of earlier research and thought on this subject. Professor Black ensures that only a basic knowledge of arithmetic is needed to understand his arguments, although his methods of reasoning will be more familiar to those readers who have previously studied mathematics and economics.

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ISBN 13	9780521141208
ISBN 10	0521141206
Titre	Theory Committees and Elections
Auteur	Duncan Black
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2011-04-14
Nombre de pages	258
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