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  • Multi-Winner Voting with Approval Preferences

    by Martin Lackner, Piotr Skowron ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems
    From fundamental concepts and results to recent advances in computational social choice, this open access book provides a thorough and in-depth look at multi-winner voting based on approval preferences. The main focus is on axiomatic analysis, algorithmic results and several applications that are relevant in artificial intelligence, computer science and elections of any kind.What is the best way ... Read more

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  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    by Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Chomsky

    Language, Mind and Politics

    by James McGilvray ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly revised and updated volume, James McGilvray provides a critical introduction to Chomsky's work in these three key areas and assesses their continuing importance and relevance for today.In an incisive and comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Text as Data

    A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

    by Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart ...
    A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social worldFrom social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning ... Read more

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  • Designing Social Inquiry

    Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, New Edition

    by Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, Sidney Verba ...
    The classic work on qualitative methods in political scienceDesigning Social Inquiry presents a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science, showing how the same logic of inference underlies both. This stimulating book discusses issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and the uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • A Behavioral Theory of Elections

    by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, David A. Siegel, Michael M. Ting ...
    Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of rationality. This groundbreaking book provides a behavioral theory of elections based on the notion that all actors--politicians ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Computational Social Science

    Discovery and Prediction

    Edited by R. Michael Alvarez ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Quantitative research in social science research is changing rapidly. Researchers have vast and complex arrays of data with which to work: we have incredible tools to sift through the data and recognize patterns in that data; there are now many sophisticated models that we can use to make sense of those patterns; and we have extremely powerful computational systems that help us accomplish these ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences

    A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis

    by Carsten Q. Schneider, Claudius Wagemann ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social science fields, statements about social phenomena can be framed in terms of set relations, and using set-theoretic methods to investigate these statements is therefore highly ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Models of Political Economy

    by Hannu Nurmi ...
    Models of Political Economy will introduce students to the basic methodology of political economics. It covers all core theories as well as new developments including:decision theorygame theorymechanism designgames of asymmetric information.Hannu Nurmi's text will prove to be invaluable to all students who wish to understand this increasingly technical field. ... Read more

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  • Party Competition

    An Agent-Based Model

    by Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Theory and Credibility

    Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science

    by Scott Ashworth, Christopher R. Berry, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita ...
    A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social scienceThe credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable. Theory and Credibility stakes out an ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Computational Social Science

    Principles and Applications

    by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and social simulation modeling. The coverage of these approaches is supported by a discussion of the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD