Choosing in groups : analytical politics revisited / Michael C. Munger, Department of Political Science, Duke University, with Kevin M. Munger, Department of Politics, New York University.
Part I. Basics: 1. The analysis of politics; 2. Becoming a group: the constitution; 3. Choosing in groups: an intuitive presentation; 4. The formal analytics of choosing in groups -- Part II. Spatial Theory: 5. Politics as spatial competition; 6. Two dimensions: elusive equilibrium -- Part III. Extensions: Collective Choice, Uncertainty, and Collective Action: 7. The social problem: impossibility; 8. Uncertainty; 9. Voting as a collective-action problem.
Summary:
"This book is an introduction to the logic and analytics of group choice. To understand how political institutions work, it is important to isolate what citizens - as individuals and as members of society - actually want. This book develops a means of 'representing' the preferences of citizens so that institutions can be studied more carefully. This is the first book to integrate the classical problem of constitutions with modern spatial theory, connecting Aristotle and Montesquieu with Arrow and Buchanan"-- Provided by publisher.
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