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Preferences and Democracy
. Ed(S): Breton, Albert; Galeotti, P.; Salmon, P.; Wintrobe, Ronald (University Of Western Ontario, Canada)
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Paperback. Villa Colombella Papers Editor(s): Breton, Albert; Galeotti, P.; Salmon, P.; Wintrobe, Ronald (University of Western Ontario, Canada). Series: International Studies in Economics and Econometrics. Num Pages: 388 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; KCA; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 642.
I. Until about a dozen years ago, the economic analysis of the relationship between political preferences and political demands was a rather straightforward, if dull, subject. The most common assumption was that the only political instrument available to citizens was the vote. Given this assumption, the analyst could express the outcome of the voting process in one of two ways. One possibility was to make the heroic assumptions necessary to obtain the median voter theorem, in which case, the political demands of the citizenry are simply the preferences of the median voter. The alternative was to make Arrow's Impossibility Theorem ... Read more
I. Until about a dozen years ago, the economic analysis of the relationship between political preferences and political demands was a rather straightforward, if dull, subject. The most common assumption was that the only political instrument available to citizens was the vote. Given this assumption, the analyst could express the outcome of the voting process in one of two ways. One possibility was to make the heroic assumptions necessary to obtain the median voter theorem, in which case, the political demands of the citizenry are simply the preferences of the median voter. The alternative was to make Arrow's Impossibility Theorem ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Series
International Studies in Economics and Econometrics
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401049696
SKU
V9789401049696
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