Fuzzy Social Choice Models: Explaining the Government Formation Process

by Peter C. Casey, Carly A. Goodman, Kelly Nelson Pook, et al.

This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set of alternatives from which collective choices are made. The book presents empirical findings achieved by the authors in their efforts to predict the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319082477
• ISBN13: 9783319082479
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"