In the last decade the techniques of social choice theory, game theory and positive political theory have been combined in interesting ways so as to pro vide a common framework…

SOCIAL CHOICE AND DEMOCRACY, however, is not merely a synthetic exercise, for Schofield’s own work over the last decade has constituted a major initiative in deepening and’ broadening our general…

This analysis builds on earlier theoretical work by Mancur Olson, William Riker and Douglass North. Professor Schofield emphasizes that under some conditions architects of political change can put a new…

This book presents state-of-the-art research in political economy dealing with the decision making process under different political institutions.

This book is the first to explain the spatial model of voting from an economics, mathematical and game-theoretic perspective. As such, it is at the cutting edge of research within…

This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The model uses the idea…

This book presents an overview of recent developments in social choice theory and welfare economics, drawn from the proceedings of the eighth conference in the International Symposia in Economic Theory…