This course will provide you with an introduction to the field of positive political theory, focusing primarily on social choice theory, mechanism design, and various proof techniques. The topics we cover will include preference aggregation, rationalizable choice, tournaments, sophisticated voting, the revelation principle, and ultimately, the implicit trade-offs made by game theoretic versus social choice theoretic approaches to modeling.
Course Attributes:
Section 01
SEMINAR IN POSITIVE POLITICAL THEORY
INSTRUCTOR: Calvert
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