Game Theory, Decision Theory, and Social Choice Theory in the Context of a New Theory of Equity

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horace W. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Decision Theory ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory

scholarly journals AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON RATIONAL CHOICE AND PHILOSOPHY

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-173
Author(s):  
Samir Okasha ◽  
John A. Weymark
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Decision Theory ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Vanderbilt University ◽  
Selection Of

This symposium contains a selection of the papers that were presented at a conference we organized on Rational Choice and Philosophy that was held at Vanderbilt University on 16 and 17 May 2014. The aim of the conference was to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for philosophical work that uses ideas and tools from rational choice theory, understood broadly to include decision theory, game theory and social choice theory.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY, GAME THEORY, AND POSITIVE POLITICAL THEORY

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Austen-Smith ◽  
Jeffrey S. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory

The Heresthetics of Coup Making

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOUSSEF COHEN
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Military Regimes ◽  
The Relationship

Heresthetics is a term coined by Riker to refer to the stratagems used by politicians to manipulate the structure of a decision-making situation. The object of such manipulation is to force one's opponents into a choice of alternatives such that, whichever alternative is chosen, the opponents will lose. The main argument of this article is that military coups and regimes are largely the outcomes of successful heresthetical maneuvers. In this article my argument is applied to the emergence of the Brazilian military regime of 1964. But the argument should apply more widely. At the very least, this preliminary exercise should stimulate more research on the strategic maneuvers that engender military regimes and other forms of political change. By investigating the relationship between heresthetics and regime change this article also shows how social choice theory and game theory can be used to complement and enrich current explanations of political change.

SOCIAL CHOICE FOR DATA FUSION

2004 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 619-631
Author(s):  
SHANFENG ZHU ◽  
QIZHI FANG ◽  
WEIMIN ZHENG
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Voting Rules ◽  
Graph Theoretic ◽  
Graph Theoretic Approach ◽  
New Algorithms

Social choice theory is the study of decision theory on how to aggregate separate preferences into group's rational preference. It has wide applications, especially on the design of voting rules, and brings far-reaching influence on the development of modern political science and welfare economics. With the advent of the information age, social choice theory finds its up-to-date application on designing effective Metasearch engines. Metasearch engines provide effective searching by combining the results of multiple source search engines that make use of diverse models and techniques. In this work, we analyze social choice algorithms in a graph-theoretic approach. In addition to classical social choice algorithms, such as Borda and Condorcet, we study one special type of social choice algorithms, elimination voting, to tackle Metasearch problem. Some new algorithms are proposed and examined in the fusion experiment on TREC data. It shows that these elimination voting algorithms achieve satisfied performance when compared with Borda algorithm.

Precursors to Public Choice

2019 ◽  
pp. 796-816
Author(s):  
Iain McLean
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mathematical Skill ◽  
The Many ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter reviews the many appearances, disappearances, and reappearances of axiomatic thought about social choice and elections since the era of ancient Greek democracy. Social choice is linked to the wider public-choice movement because both are theories of agency. Thus, just as the first public-choice theorists include Hobbes, Hume, and Madison, so the first social-choice theorists include Pliny, Llull, and Cusanus. The social-choice theory of agency appears in many strands. The most important of these are binary vs. nonbinary choice; aggregation of judgement vs. aggregation of opinion; and selection of one person vs. selection of many people. The development of social choice required both a public-choice mindset and mathematical skill.

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