Back نظرية الخيار الاجتماعي Arabic Sosial seçim nəzəriyyəsi Azerbaijani Sozialwahltheorie German Teoría de la elección social Spanish نظریه انتخاب اجتماعی Persian Théorie du choix social French בחירה חברתית HE Teori pemilihan sosial ID Teoria della scelta sociale Italian 社会選択理論 Japanese
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Social choice theory is the branch of welfare economics which studies processes of collective decision-making.[1] It contrasts with political science in that it is a normative science studying how societies should make decisions, whereas political science is descriptive (observing how societies do make decisions). Social choice incorporates insights from economics, mathematics, philosophy, and game theory to find the best ways to combine individual preferences into a coherent whole, called a social welfare function.[2][3]
Because of its strong connections to political philosophy and voting, social choice is sometimes also called voting theory.[4][5][6] Real-world examples include enacting laws under a constitution or voting, where individual preferences over candidates are collected to elect a person that best represents the group's preferences.[4] The field is closely tied to mechanism design, which can be thought of as the modelling of social choice using game theory.
Social choice differs from decision theory in that the latter is concerned with how individuals, rather than societies, can make rational decisions.
- ^ Amartya Sen (2008). "Social Choice,". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, Abstract & TOC.
- ^ For example, in Kenneth J. Arrow (1951). Social Choice and Individual Values, New York: Wiley, ch. II, section 2, A Notation for Preferences and Choice, and ch. III, "The Social Welfare Function".
- ^ Fishburn, Peter C. (1974). "Social Choice Functions". SIAM Review. 16: 63–90. doi:10.1137/1016005.
- ^ a b Zwicker, William S.; Moulin, Herve (2016), Brandt, Felix; Conitzer, Vincent; Endriss, Ulle; Lang, Jerome (eds.), "Introduction to the Theory of Voting", Handbook of Computational Social Choice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 23–56, doi:10.1017/cbo9781107446984.003, ISBN 978-1-107-44698-4, retrieved 2021-12-24
- ^ Nurmi, Hannu (2010), Rios Insua, David; French, Simon (eds.), "Voting Theory", e-Democracy: A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 101–123, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9045-4_7, ISBN 978-90-481-9045-4, retrieved 2024-06-20
- ^ Coughlin, Peter J. (1992-10-30). Probabilistic Voting Theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36052-4.
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