Political Institutions Democracy And Social Choice
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Political Institutions
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Author : Josep M. Colomer
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-02-01
Political Institutions written by Josep M. Colomer and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-01 with Political Science categories.
The role of institutions is to establish the domains of public activity and the rules to select leaders. Democratic regimes organize in simple institutional frameworks to foster the concentration of power and alternative successive absolute winners and losers. They favour political satisfaction of relatively small groups, as well as policy instability. In contrast, pluralistic institutions produce multiple winners, including multiparty co-operation and agreements. They favour stable, moderate, and consensual policies that can satisfy large groups' interests on a great number of issues. The more complex the political institutions, the more stable and socially efficient the outcome will be. This book develops an extensive analysis of this relationship. It explores concepts, questions and insights based on social choice theory, while empirical focus is cast on more than 40 democratic countries and a few international organizations from late medieval times to the present. The book argues that pluralistic democratic institutions are judged to be better than simple formula of their higher capacity of producing socially satisfactory results.
Political Institutions
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Author : Josep Maria Colomer
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-02-01
Political Institutions written by Josep Maria Colomer and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-01 with Political Science categories.
This ground-breaking book examines the relationship between the complexity of political institutions and the stability of socially effective outcomes in more than 40 countries. - ;The role of institutions is to establish the domains of public activity and the rules to select leaders. Democratic regimes organized in simple institutional frameworks to foster the concentration of power and alternative successive absolute winners and losers. They favour political satisfaction of relatively small groups, as well as policy instability. In contrast, pluralistic institutions produce multiple winners, including multiparty co-operation and agreements. They favour stable, moderate, and consensual policies that can satisfy large groups' interests on a great number of issues. The more complex the political institutions, the more stable and socially efficient the outcome will be. This book develops an extensive analysis of this relationship. It explores concepts, questions and insights based on social choice theory, while empirical focus is cast on more than 40 democratic countries and a few international organizations from late medieval times to the present. The book argues that pluralistic democratic institutions are better than simple formulas for their higher capacity of producing socially satisfactory results. -
Political Institutions
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Author : Josep Maria Colomer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Political Institutions written by Josep Maria Colomer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Comparative government categories.
Examining the relationship between the role and complexity of political institutions, and the effect of these factors on their policies, this text explores concepts, questions and insights based on social choice theory.
Collective Decision Making
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Author : Norman Schofield
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Collective Decision Making written by Norman Schofield and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Political Science categories.
In the last decade the techniques of social choice theory, game theory and positive political theory have been combined in interesting ways so as to pro vide a common framework for analyzing the behavior of a developed political economy. Social choice theory itself grew out of the innovative attempts by Ken neth Arrow (1951) and Duncan Black (1948, 1958) to extend the range of economic theory in order to deal with collective decision-making over public goods. Later work, by William Baumol (1952), and James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (1962), focussed on providing an "economic" interpretation of democratic institutions. In the same period Anthony Downs (1957) sought to model representative democracy and elections while William Riker (1962) made use of work in cooperative game theory (by John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern, 1944) to study coalition behavior. In my view, these "rational choice" analyses of collective decision-making have their antecedents in the arguments of Adam Smith (1759, 1776), James Madison (1787) and the Marquis de Condorcet (1785) about the "design" of political institutions. In the introductory chapter to this volume I briefly describe how some of the current normative and positive aspects of social choice date back to these earlier writers.
Social Choice And Democratic Values
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Author : Eerik Lagerspetz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-11-26
Social Choice And Democratic Values written by Eerik Lagerspetz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-26 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theory of social choice and the more traditional issues of political theory and philosophy. In this regard, the author eschews a strong methodological commitment or technical formalism; the approach is instead based on the presentation of political facts and illustrated via numerous real-life examples. This allows the reader to get acquainted with the philosophical and political dispute surrounding voting and collective decision-making and its links to social choice theory.
Political Institutions
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Author : Josep Maria Colomer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Political Institutions written by Josep Maria Colomer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Comparative government categories.
Liberalism Against Populism
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Author : William H. Riker
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 1988-07-01
Liberalism Against Populism written by William H. Riker and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07-01 with Political Science categories.
The discoveries of social choice theory have undermined the simple and unrealistic nineteenth-century notions of democracy, especially the expectation that electoral institutions smoothly translate popular will directly into public policy. One response to these discoveries is to reject democracy out of hand. Another, which is the program of this book, is to save democracy by formulating more realistic expectations. Hence, this book first summarizes social choice theory in order to explain the full force of its critique. Then it explains, in terms of social choice theory, how politics and public issues change and develop. Finally, it reconciles democratic ideals with this new understanding of politics.
Deliberation Social Choice And Absolutist Democracy
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Author : David van Mill
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-01-24
Deliberation Social Choice And Absolutist Democracy written by David van Mill and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-24 with Philosophy categories.
Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic politics and decision-making. Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy addresses the dispute between these competing schools of thought. Deliberative democracy and social choice theorists offer the two dominant and competing conceptions of participation in contemporary democratic theory. With the former holding that theories of discourse tell us that through the democratic process we can arrive at consensus, rational outcomes and even principles of justice, while the latter suggest that fair and equal participation is more likely to lead to instability and irrational outcomes. With an in-depth examination of social choice theory and deliberative democracy, David van Mill: presents two case studies on the American Continental Congress 1774-1789 provides an assessment of the types of institutions that will promote radical democracy and create stable outcomes with the minimum sacrifice of the freedom and equality of participants defends a more radical idea of absolutist democracy, gleaned from the writings of Hobbes, against the claims made in favour of limited constitutional government. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political theory, particularly those with an interest in democracy and social choice theory.
Politics From Anarchy To Democracy
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Author : Irwin Lester Morris
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004
Politics From Anarchy To Democracy written by Irwin Lester Morris and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.
Although the study of politics dates to ancient Greece, the basic questions that interested those earliest political scientists still linger with us today: What are the origins of government? What should government do? What conditions foster effective governance? Rational choice theory offers a new means for developing correctable answers to these questions. This volume illustrates the promise of rational choice theory and demonstrates how theory can help us develop interesting, fresh conclusions about the fundamental processes of politics. Each of the books three sections begins with a pedagogical overview that is accessible to those with little knowledge of rational choice theory. The first group of essays then discusses various ways in which rational choice contributes to our understanding of the foundations of government. The second set focuses on the contributions of rational choice theory to institutional analysis. The final group demonstrates ways in which rational choice theory helps to understand the character of popular government.
Liberal Utilitarianism
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Author : Jonathan Riley
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1988-04-07
Liberal Utilitarianism written by Jonathan Riley and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-04-07 with Business & Economics categories.
This is a book about liberal democratic values and their implications for the design of political institutions. Its distinctive feature is the use of some simple mathematical techniques (known as social choice theory) to clarify and defend a rather complex utilitarian conception of the liberal democratic 'way of life' based on John Stuart Mill's work. More specifically, the text focuses on three well-known 'social choice paradoxes' which are commonly held to destroy any possibility of an ideal harmony among liberal democratic values; and draws upon suggestions implicit in Mill's writings to develop an ethically appealing liberal democratic social choice framework in which the aforementioned paradoxes no longer cause concern. The revised framework is a rather complex version of utilitarianism and should be of special interest to welfare economists, social choice theorists, democratic political theorists and philosophers concerned with utilitarian ethics.