Fuzzy Social Choice Theory

• Main Authors: B. Gibilisco, Michael (Author), M. Gowen, Annie (Author), E. Albert, Karen (Author), N. Mordeson, John (Author), J. Wierman, Mark (Author), D. Clark, Terry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 315
• Subjects: Engineering.; Political theory.; Mathematics.; Social sciences.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Political Theory.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social choice literature and shows, by applying fuzzy sets, how the use of fuzzy preferences, rather than that of strict ones, may affect the social choice theorems. To do this, the book explores the presupposition of rationality within the fuzzy fram...