In assessing the applicability of the theories of choice to social systems, one cannot escape
the fact that such systems are generally much too complex and much too ill-defined to be …

Social choice theory is an analytical discipline which makes extensive use of axiomatic
methods. Many of its strengths and weaknesses relate precisely to this analytical character …

Economists are used to associate the rationality of individual choice behaviour with simple
and unchanging individual preference patterns, typically predicting unique behavioural …

This paper will present a theory of rational choice in social groups. Arrow articulated the
problem of finding a rational method 'of amalgamating the tastes of many individuals in the …

STEVEN STRASNICK EXTENDED SYMPATHY COMPARISONS AND THE BASIS OF
SOCIAL CHOICE ABSTRACT. There is a tradition in the social sciences which views the …

The value of rational choice theory for the social sciences has been long debated. Such
rational choice theory involves a theory of behaviour based on the assumption that …

The paper is a theoretical study of a generalization of the lexicographic rule for combining
ordering relations. We define the concept of priority operator: a priority operator maps a …

Social choice theory and, more generally, research on procedures used in the collective
decision making have over the past decades proved to be an exceptionally productive field …

At least since the publication of Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin's Foreign Policy Decision-Making
(1962), political scientists have been self-consciously aware that the study of politics …

T n HE theory of rational choice plays a central role in the social sciences. The received view
among philosophers who study rational-choice theory (both proponents and critics) holds …