Elections and Fair Division: An Introduction to Social Choice Theory

Author:   Harrie de Swart ,  Stefan Wintein
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Pages:   301
Publication Date:   12 November 2025
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Elections and Fair Division: An Introduction to Social Choice Theory


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Author:   Harrie de Swart ,  Stefan Wintein
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032060099


ISBN 10:   3032060095
Pages:   301
Publication Date:   12 November 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Chapter 1. Different Country, Different Electoral System; Agendas.- Chapter 2. Electoral Rules, Properties and Impossibilities.- Chapter 3. Impossibility and Possibility Theorems; Single-peaked Preferences.- Chapter 4. Majority Judgment.- Chapter 5. Voting Power.- Chapter 6. An Alternative Polity.- Chapter 7. Claims-based Fair Division.- Chapter 8. Bankruptcy Problems.- Chapter 9. Weighted Bankruptcy Problems.- Chapter 10. Weighted Bankruptcy with Discrete Estates: Apportionments and Lotteries.- Chapter 11. Cooperative Game Theory.- Chapter 12. Preference Based Division Problems.

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Harrie de Swart is a Professor Emeritus of Logic and Analysis of Language at the Faculty of Philosophy of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He studied Mathematics and Physics at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, with a specialization in logic, foundations, and philosophy of mathematics. De Swart holds a PhD in mathematical logic from the same university. After 50 years of experience with teaching logic and 25 years of teaching social choice theory, he authored a book on ""Philosophical and Mathematical Logic"" (Springer, 2018) and another book on Social Choice Theory, together with Stefan Wintein. Stefan Wintein is an Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and a member of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics. He holds a PhD in logic from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, an MSc in Econometrics, and a MA in Philosophy. His research focuses on philosophical logic (self-referential truth, many-valued logics) and formal ethics (fairness, distributive justice). He teaches social choice theory, logic, and philosophy to economics students.

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