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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Collective Choice"”.
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Communication in Collective Choice Environments
… I present three models of communication in collective choice environments. The first two models demonstrate how collective choice procedures provide opportunities for informed communicators to manipulate outcomes by strategically obfuscating information to appeal to different coalitions at …
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Three essays in collective choice theory
… contains three essays at the frontier of social choice theory and the theory of games. In the first essay, we consider the problem of dividing a fixed quantity of a perfectly divisible good among n individuals with single-peaked preferences. We show that the properties of Strategy-proofness, …
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Training Externalities and Institutional Determinants: Assessing Rentention in Ohio Apprenticeship Programs
… into three levels, which are the constitutional, collective-choice, and operational levels. Four types of strategy at the constitutional level and one strategy at the collective-choice level, together with their theoretical hypotheses, are discussed and analyzed. A feedback model is then built to …
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An economic analysis of the causes of unionization of college faculty
… approach to human behavior to individual choice in the context of voting for or against unionization. That is, the benefits and costs of unionization are assumed to be the relevant factors in the choice calculus of voting faculty. The primary source of benefits and costs come from the …
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Democracy after deliberation: Bridging the constitutional economicsdeliberative democracy divide
… utility by promoting efficient schemes of collective choice. Deliberative democrats, on the other hand, understand political agents as communicative reason-giving subjects who justify their preferences and positions on issues that jointly affect them in a process of consensus-directed …
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Navigating Through U.S.-China Policy: An Investigation of China National Off-Shore Oil Corporation's Proposed Acquisition of Unocal Corporation and How Domestic Politics Plays a Role in Balancing U.S. Trade Policy with National Security Policy
… the importance of political values and collective choice in foreign policy making. Since institutionalism emphasizes the significance of history and assumes the infusion of societal values over time, the study applies historical research methodology to the case study. Sources of data …
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Essays on Applied Game Theory and Public Economics
The first chapter presents a theoretical model of electoral competition where two parties can increase campaign contributions by choosing policies benefiting a significant interest group. However, such decision will shrink their hardcore vote base where voters are well informed about the policy. …
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Finding order in a contentious Internet
… replete with function-specific constitutional, collective choice, and operational rules for managing the knowledge commons and facilities supporting routing system function. The NRS institutions form a contingent social order, rooted in shared, authoritative images of system function and …