Politics and Social Choice
Social choice theory helps to design a research strategy. Three institutional variables producing different degrees of stability and different amounts of social utility are: (1) the dispersion of voters’ preferences, corresponding to simple and complex electorates; (2) the inclusiveness of different voting and electoral rules; and (3) the number of issue dimensions in single and separate elections, corresponding to schemes of unity and division of powers.
Keywords: dispersion, division of powers, electoral rules, electorate, issue dimension, median voter, political equilibrium, social choice, social utility
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