Description: 1 Introduction: Research Programs in Preference and Belief Aggregation.- I. Social Choice.- 2 An Introduction to Arrovian Social Welfare Functions on Economic and Political Domains.- 3 Social Ranking of Allocations with and without Coalition Formation.- 4 Non Binary Social Choice: A Brief Introduction.- 5 Election Relations and a Partial Ordering for Positional Voting.- II. Elections and Committees.- 6 Electing Legislatures.- 7 Preference-Based Stability: Experiments on Cooperative Solutions to Majority Rule Games.- 8 The Heart of a Polity.- 9 Refinements of the Heart.- III. Coalition Governments.- 10 Bargaining in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.- 11 An Analysis of the Euskarian Parliament.- 12 Extending a Dynamic Model of Protocoalition Formation.- 13 The Sequential Dynamics of Cabinet Formation, Stochastic Error, and a Test of Competing Models.- 14 Subgame-Perfect Portfolio Allocations in Parliamentary Government Formation.- 15 The Costs of Coalition: The Italian Anomaly.- IV. Political Economy.- 16 Models of Interest Groups: Four Different Approaches.- 17 Partisan Electoral Cycles and Monetary Policy Games.- 18 Hypothesis Testing and Collective Decision-Making.- 19 Political Discourse, Factions, and the General Will: Correlated Voting and Condorcet's Jury Theorem.- Name Index.

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