Choosing in Groups: Analytical Politics Revisited by Michael Munger

Author:Michael Munger [Munger, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Social Choice

Social choice analyzes alternative decision rules, or deciding how to decide. We have discussed in this book a hierarchy of choices, and it is important to understand the differences.1

I. Deciding how to decide how to decide: Are we a group? Are we going to kill each other, or cooperate? How will we constitute ourselves?

II. Deciding how to decide: What decision rule will we use, and what are the rules for changing the rules, in our constitution?

III. Deciding: What will be our policies and everyday political decision about speed limits, budgets, and regulation of pollution, in the context of a constituted group with relatively fixed formal decision rules and amendment processes?

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