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Preferences and Democracy
. Ed(S): Breton, Albert; Galeotti, P.; Salmon, Pierre; Wintrobe, Ronald
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Hardback. Villa Colombella Papers Editor(s): Breton, Albert; Galeotti, P.; Salmon, Pierre; Wintrobe, Ronald. Series: International Studies in Economics and Econometrics. Num Pages: 388 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 742.
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
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Series
International Studies in Economics and Econometrics
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792393214
SKU
V9780792393214
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