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Behavioral Social Choice looks at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making rules. The authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about social choice processes, and seek to restore faith in the possibility of democratic decision-making. In particular, they argue that worries about the supposed prevalence of majority rule cycles that would preclude groups from reaching a final decision about what alternative they prefer have been greatly overstated. In practice, majority rule can be expected to work well in most real-world settings. Furthermore, if there is a problem, they show that the problem is more likely to be one of sample estimates missing the majority winner in a close contest (e.g., Bush-Gore) than a problem about cycling. The authors also provide new mathematical tools to estimate the prevalence of cycles as a function of sample size and insights into how alternative model specifications can change our estimates of social orderings.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Social, group or collective psychology

• Full title: Behavioral Social Choice
• Subtitle: Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications
• Author: Michel RegenwetterBernard GrofmanA. A. J. MarleyIlia Tsetlin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 258
• EAN: 9780521829687
• ISBN: 0521829682
• ID: 02045685
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 465 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. May 2006

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