WICKEDNESS IN SOCIAL CHOICE

Topological Social Choice Topological Social Choice

The topological approach to social choice was developed by Graciela Chichilnisky in the beginning of the eighties. The main result in this area (known as the resolution of the topological social choice paradox) shows that a space of preferences admits of a continuous, anonymous, and unanimous aggregation rule for every number of individuals if and only if the space is contractible. Furthermore,...

Actions in Social Choice

This thesis concerns a specific procedure for social choice of a group action under uncertainty. It consists of three main parts. First we investigate formal desiderata for the single agent case. Next the model’s position relative to varying disciplines is considered. Finally we provide an implementation of the full multiagent model in the programming language Haskell.

Social Choice

Re-configuring Poverty: The Wickedness Perspective

Alleviating poverty in small-scale fisheries requires a clear understanding of what poverty means. On the whole, different perspectives and strategies have been used to understand and address poverty. These strategies have been grounded in an understanding of poverty as a straightforward economic problem. Moreover, a number of these strategies and perspectives have one way or another been groun...

Social Choice and Social Networks