Probabilistic voting theory
1992, 1st edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425992
ISBN: 0521360528
Physical Description; ix, 252 pages. Summary; Peter Coughlin provides the most comprehensive and integrated analysis of probabilistic voting models to date. Probabilistic voting theory is the mathematical prediction of candidate behaviour in, or in anticipation of, elections in which candidates are unsure of voters' preferences. The theory asks first whether optimal candidate strategies can be determined given uncertainty about voter preferences, and if so, what exactly those strategies are given various circumstances. It allows the theorist to predict what public policies will be. Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Majority rule and models of elections; 2. Income redistribution and electoral equilibria; 3. Properties of the redistributional equilibria; 4. A more general election model; 5. Concave social and candidate objective functions; 6. Directional, stationary and global electoral equilibri 7. Epilogue. Notes; Peter Coughlin provides the most comprehensive and integrated analysis of probabilistic voting models to date. Probabilistic voting theory is the mathematical prediction of candidate behaviour in, or in anticipation of, elections in which candidates are unsure of voters' preferences. The theory asks first whether optimal candidate strategies can be determined given uncertainty about voter preferences, and if so, what exactly those strategies are given various circumstances. It allows the theorist to predict what public policies will be.
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