The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing
Title | The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing PDF eBook |
Author | Iain S. McLean |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2013-03-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9401148600 |
R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A man of great simplicity, un worldly, modest, diffident, with no pretensions, he was devoted to scholarship. In his single-minded search for the truth, he is an example to us all. Black's first degree at the University of Glasgow was in mathematics and physics. Mathematics as taught at Glasgow seems to have been designed for engineers and did not excite him and he switched to economics, which he found more congenial. But it was not in a lecture in economics but in one on politics that he found his star. One lecturer, A. K. White, discussed the possibility of constructing a pure science of politics. This question caught his imagination, perhaps because of his earlier training in physics, and it came to absorb his thoughts for the rest of his life. But almost certainly nothing would have come of it were it not for his appointment to the newly formed Dundee School of Economics where the rest of the. teaching staff came from the London School of Economics. At Glasgow, economics, as in the time of Adam Smith, was linked with moral philosophy. At Dundee, Black was introduced to the analytical x The Theory o/Committees and Elections approach dominant at the London School of Economics. This gave him the approach he used in his attempt to construct a pure science of politics.
The Theory of Committees and Elections
Title | The Theory of Committees and Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Black |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9400942257 |
THIS book or some related work has occupied me spasmodically over rather a long period, in fact ever since I listened to the class lectures of Professor A. K. White on the possibility of forming a pure science of Politics. Mter an earlier version of Part I had failed to obtain publication in 1947, some chapters appeared as articles, and I am obliged to the editors of the journals mentioned below for permission to reprint this material, sometimes in a modified form. When I first attempted publication I was unacquainted with the earlier history of the theory, and, indeed, did not even know that it had a history; and the later additions to the book have largely been by way of writing the present Part II. This historical section does not include the important recent work, Social Ohoice and Individual Values (1951), of Professor Kenneth J. Arrow; but it does include all the mathematical work on committees and elections appearing before the middle of this century which has come to my notice, although the last item in it is dated 1907. No doubt there is much important material which I have failed to see. The theorizing of the book grew out of a reading of the English political philosophers and of the Italian writers on Public Finance. At a very early stage I was helped to find the general lines of development by discussion with my colleague Professor Ronald H.
Committee decisions with complementary valuation
Title | Committee decisions with complementary valuation PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Black |
Publisher | |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Committees |
ISBN |
Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics
Title | Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics PDF eBook |
Author | William H. E. Day |
Publisher | SIAM |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780898717501 |
Provides a unique comprehensive review of axiomatic consensus theory in biomathematics as it has developed over the past 30 years.
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting
Title | Handbook of Social Choice and Voting PDF eBook |
Author | Jac C. Heckelman |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2015-12-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1783470739 |
This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting that is intended for a broad audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical summaries of the existing literature, including intuitive explanations of technical terminology and well-known theorems, suggesting new directions for research.
The Logic of Democracy
Title | The Logic of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony J. McGann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780472099498 |
How does democracy work?
The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Fisher |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 786 |
Release | 2017-09-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317494806 |
The study of elections, voting behavior and public opinion are arguably among the most prominent and intensively researched sub-fields within Political Science. It is an evolving sub-field, both in terms of theoretical focus and in particular, technical developments and has made a considerable impact on popular understanding of the core components of liberal democracies in terms of electoral systems and outcomes, changes in public opinion and the aggregation of interests. This handbook details the key developments and state of the art research across elections, voting behavior and the public opinion by providing both an advanced overview of each core area and engaging in debate about the relative merits of differing approaches in a comprehensive and accessible way. Bringing geographical scope and depth, with comparative chapters that draw on material from across the globe, it will be a key reference point both for advanced level students and researchers developing knowledge and producing new material in these sub-fields and beyond. The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion is an authoritative and key reference text for students, academics and researchers engaged in the study of electoral research, public opinion and voting behavior.