Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably
chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in …

Behavioral Social Choice looks at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making
rules. The authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about social choice …

2.7 Conclusion Numerous empirical studies have been conducted to determine if
Condorcet's Paradox is ever observed in actual elections. After surveying these studies, we …

Do great leaders make history? Or are they compelled to act by historical circumstance?
This debate has remained unresolved since Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx framed it in the …

Group decision making is an important, long‐standing, and ubiquitous problem in all
societies, where collective decisions must be made by a group of agents despite individual …

Voting systems aggregate preferences efficiently and are often used for deciding
conservation priorities. Desirable characteristics of voting systems include transitivity …

Like other mathematically intensive sciences, economics is becoming increasingly
computerized. Despite the extent of the computation, however, there is very little true …

We develop a framework that leverages the smoothed complexity analysis by Spielman and
Teng to circumvent paradoxes and impossibility theorems in social choice, motivated by …

Many papers have studied the probability of majority cycles, also called the Condorcet
paradox, using the impartial culture or related distributional assumptions. While it is widely …

Simulation research has made some notable contributions in political science. This article
describes a variety of simulation projects and points out the strengths and weaknesses of …