Slides

 

1. Pairwise Majority Rule

    

   • Social Choice : Introduction
   • The Condorcet Paradox
   • Voting over Income Tax Rates

 

2. Voting Rules

    

   • Plurality Voting
   • The Borda Count

 

3. Impossibility Theorems

    

   • Arrow's Impossibility Theorem : Introduction
   • Arrow's Impossibility Theorem : Sketch of Proof
   • The Gibbard--Satterthwaite Theorem

 

4. Vote--Maximizing Parties

    

   • The Principle of Minimum Differentiation
   • Probabilistic Voting
   • Citizen-Candidates

 

5. Bureaucrats, Politicians and Agency Problems

    

   • Budget--Maximizing Bureaucracy
   • Retrospective Voting

 

6. Legislatures

    

   • Bargaining in a Legislature
   • Distributive Spending I

 

7. Multi--Level Government

    

   • Mobility and Local Public Goods
   • Subsidiarity
   • Mobility and Income Taxation
   • Competition Among Jurisdictions
   • Distributive Spending Revisited

 

8. Constituencies and Proportional Representation

    

   • Probabilistic Voting, with Proportional Representation and with Constituencies