Paradox of voting Study guides, Study notes & Summaries

I. LOGIC AND PROBLEM SOLVING 1. Thinking Critically Activity: Bursting Bubble 1A. Living in the Media Age In Your World: Fact Checking on the Web 1B. Propositions and Truth Values 1C. Sets and Venn Diagrams Brief Review: Sets of Numbers 1D. Analyzing Arguments Mathematical Insight: Deductive Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem 1E. Critical Thinking in Everyday Life In Your World: Beware of “Up to” Deals 2. Approaches to Problem Solving Activity: Global Melting 2A. Understand, Solve, and Explain...

what is Condorcet's Paradox? - Answer- a situation in which the collective preferences of a group are not guaranteed to be rational, even though each of the individuals in the group individually has rational preferences which of the following is NOT needed in order for the Median Voter Theorem to hold? - Answer- a bell-shaped distribution of voters what is the fundamental implication of Arrow's Theorem? - Answer- there is no possible decision-making rule satisfying a minimal standard of ...

A summary of the work covered within Chapter 16 of the EKN 120 course. This covers government failure, cost benefit analysis, the paradox of voting and externalities

Arrow's impossibility theorem In social choice theory, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, the General Possibility Theorem, or Arrow’s paradox, states that, when voters have three or more distinct al ternatives (options), no rank order voting system can convert the ranked preferences of individuals into a communitywide (complete and transitive) ranking while also meeting a pre-specified set of criteria. These prespecified criteria are called unrestricted domain, non-dictatorship, Pareto efficien...

Samenvatting van alle artikelen voor het tentamen van Rejecting Minorities. De samenvatting is in het Nederlands, termen heb ik meestal in het Engels laten staan. Artikelen die zijn samengevat: Taylor & Moghaddam – Theories of intergroup relations (1987), Spears – Group identities: The social identity perspective (2011), Coser – The functions of social conflict (1956), Blumer – Race prejudice as a sense of group position (1958), Wetts & Willer – Privilege on the precipice: Perceived r...

Summaries of all the mandatory readings of the course Rejecting minorities: an interdisciplinary perspective on intergroup relations. The Summaries are categorized per weekly topic, structured according to the reading list from the course syllabus. Week 1: Introduction and start theories: social identity theory - TAYLOR, D.M. & MOGHADDAM, F.M. (1987). THEORIES OF INTERGROUP RELATIONS. WESTPORT: PRAEGER. PP. 59- 84. - SPEARS, R. (2011). GROUP IDENTITIES: THE SOCIAL IDENTITY PERSPECTIVE. PP....

Full lecture notes for PH336 Principles of Political Economy - Politics and Economics. Topics covered: - Methodology - Public Choice - Downs, voting theory and the paradox of voting - Ostrom, climate change and global governance - Global public goods - Free riding - Olson and special interest groups - Lobbying - Institutionalism - Path dependency