Theory Committees and Elections
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Black / Black, Duncan, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In this book, first published in , the social choice theorist and economist Duncan Black aims to formulate a pure science ong>ofong> politics. Focusing on the ong>mathematicsong> ong>ofong> committees and, accordingly, ong>ofong> elections, Black's writing engages with the theories ong>ofong> Condorcet, Borda and Laplace in order to describe the ways in which different systems ong>ofong> voting will yield different results. This can, as Black discusses in detail, influence whether the chosen candidate or motion is relatively agreeable to all, or only suited to the majority group ong>ofong> voters. Black also presents a history ong>ofong> the political science ong>ofong> elections, placing his own work within the context ong>ofong> earlier research and thought on this subject. Prong>ofong>essor Black ensures that only a basic knowledge ong>ofong> arithmetic is needed to understand his arguments, although his methods ong>ofong> reasoning will be more familiar to those readers who have previously studied ong>mathematicsong> and economics.