"Governing requires choices, and hence trade-offs between conflicting goals or criteria. This book asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for such trade-offs and then demonstrates that such explanations can always be found, though not for every possible choice. In so doing, Jo...

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Main Authors:	Patty, John W. (Author), Penn, Elizabeth Maggie 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
Edition:	1. publ.
Series:	Political economy of institutions and decisions
Subjects:	POLITICAL SCIENCE / General Politik Social choice > Political aspects Rational choice theory > Political aspects Legitimacy of governments Government accountability Legitimität Rational Choice Politische Entscheidung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"Governing requires choices, and hence trade-offs between conflicting goals or criteria. This book asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for such trade-offs and then demonstrates that such explanations can always be found, though not for every possible choice. In so doing, John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn use the tools of social choice theory to provide a new and discriminating theory of legitimacy. In contrast with both earlier critics and defenders of social choice theory, Patty and Penn argue that the classic impossibility theorems of Arrow, Gibbard, and Satterthwaite are inescapably relevant to, and indeed justify, democratic institutions. Specifically, these institutions exist to do more than simply make policy - through their procedures and proceedings, these institutions make sense of the trade-offs required when controversial policy decisions must be made"..
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	IX, 208 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:	9780521191012 9780521138338