Author: Leonora Cohen RosenfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Condorcet Studies
Author: Leonora Cohen RosenfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence
Author: William V. GehrleinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642031072
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The likelihood of observing Condorcet's Paradox is known to be very low for elections with a small number of candidates if voters’ preferences on candidates reflect any significant degree of a number of different measures of mutual coherence. This reinforces the intuitive notion that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters’ preferences become more mutually coherent. Similar analysis is used here to indicate that this notion is valid for most, but not all, other voting paradoxes. This study also focuses on the Condorcet Criterion, which states that the pairwise majority rule winner should be chosen as the election winner, if one exists. Representations for the Condorcet Efficiency of the most common voting rules are obtained here as a function of various measures of the degree of mutual coherence of voters’ preferences. An analysis of the Condorcet Efficiency representations that are obtained yields strong support for using Borda Rule.
Condorcet
Author: Guillaume AnsartPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105896X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution. Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new political culture emerging in the United States constitute milestones in the history of French political thought and of French attitudes toward the United States. These remarkable texts, however, have not been available in modern editions or translations. This book presents first or new translations of all of Condorcet’s major writings on the United States, including an essay on the impact of the American Revolution on Europe; a commentary on the Federal Constitution, the first such commentary to be published in the Old World; and his Eulogy of Franklin, in which Condorcet paints a vivid picture of his recently deceased friend as the archetype of the new American man: self-made, practical, talented but modest, tolerant and free of prejudice—the embodiment of reason, common sense, and the liberal values of the Enlightenment.
Condorcet and Modernity
Author: David WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456482
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Marquis de Condorcet was one of the few Enlightenment ideologists to witness the French Revolution and participate as an elected politician at the centre of events during France's transition from monarchy to republic. Condorcet and Modernity explores the interaction between Condorcet's political theory, legislative pragmatism, public policy proposals and the management of change. David Williams examines key topics including rights, the civil order, the Church, the slave trade, women's civil rights, judicial reform, voting and representation, economics, monarchy, power and revolution. He explores the complex links between Condorcet as the visionary ideologist and Condorcet as the pragmatic legislator, and between Condorcet's concept of modernity - the application of 'social arithmetic' to government policies. Based on an extensive array of both printed and manuscript sources, this major contribution to enlightenment studies is a full treatment of Condorcet's politics.
Condorcet
Author: Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de CondorcetPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781008119
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Marquis de Condorcet (1743-94) was a founding father of social science. He believed that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the same exacting methods as the natural sciences, and he developed many of the tools for doing so. Condorcet has had two quite unconnected reputations: as the doomed and foolish Enlightenment scholar, writing about the perfectibility of mankind while in hiding from the Terror that would shortly claim his own life; and as the incomprehensible founder of social choice, whose Essai of 1785 was not understood until the 1950s. This book shows that he was not so foolish, nor so incomprehensible, as even sympathetic treatments have made him sound.
ECONOMIC SENTIMENTS
Author: Emma RothschildPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725611
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world.
Condorcet's Paradox
Author: William V. GehrleinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540337997
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The book compiles research on Condorcet's Paradox over some two centuries. It begins with a historical overview of the discovery of Condorcet's Paradox in the 18th Century, reviews numerous studies conducted to find actual occurrences of the paradox, and compiles research that has been done to develop mathematical representations for the probability that the paradox will be observed. Combines all approaches that have been used to study this very interesting phenomenon.
Condorcet: Political Writings
Author: Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de CondorcetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A revised translation of Condorcet's view of progress across history and his prophetic writings on women, slavery, freedom and revolution.
Studies in the History of French Political Economy
Author: Gilbert FaccarelloPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134857675
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Studies in the History of French Political Economy considers the evolution of economic thought in France, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Gilbert Faccarello brings to the forefront those economists, themes and controversies which are important in the context of recent research, and about which new ideas can be developed.
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy
Author: Knud HaakonssenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521867436
Category : Electronic reference sources
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.