Social Choice and Strategic Decisions Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Austen-Smith, David (Editor), Duggan, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare,
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Sociology.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Sociology, general.

Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks` research on this subject. It e...

Table of Contents:

• and Overview
• Probabilistic Voting in the Spatial Model of Elections: The Theory of Office-motivated Candidates
• Local Political Equilibria
• Electoral Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality: The Effects of Candidate Ideology and Private Information
• Party Objectives in the “Divide a Dollar” Electoral Competition
• Generalized Bandit Problems
• The Banks Set and the Uncovered Set in Budget Allocation Problems
• Experiments in Majoritarian Bargaining
• Legislative Coalitions in a Bargaining Model with Externalities
• Testing Theories of Lawmaking
• Deliberation and Voting Rules.