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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2011
      October 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511895395
      9780521360524
      9780521063296
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895395
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.534kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.428kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Political Theory, Macroeconomics, Politics and International Relations
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    Economics, Political Theory, Macroeconomics, Politics and International Relations
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    Peter Coughlin provides the most comprehensive and integrated analysis of probabilistic voting models to date. Probabilistic voting theory is the mathematical prediction of candidate behaviour in, or in anticipation of, elections in which candidates are unsure of voters' preferences. The theory asks first whether optimal candidate strategies can be determined given uncertainty about voter preferences, and if so, what exactly those strategies are given various circumstances. It allows the theorist to predict what public policies will be supported and what laws passed by elected officials when in office and what positions will be taken by them when running in elections. One of the leading contributors to this rapidly developing literature, at the leading edge of public choice theory, Coughlin both reviews the existing literature and presents results that unify and extend developments in the theory.

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    "The book by P. Coughlin, one of the principal contributors to the probalistic voting theory, can be recommended as an up-to-date monograph on the subject, containing both original results and well-annotated references." Journal of Classification

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