Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates

Rate this book Arrow Icon

Key Metrics

AuthorJon Elster
PublisherCambridge University Press
PublishedJun 26 2015
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139781107083363
Dimensions9 X 6 X 0.75 inches
Weight 1.24 pounds
BISAC
CategoriesPolitical Science > History & Theory - General
LanguageEnglish

List Price:

Save:

$0 ($%)

Format:

Hardcover

Shipping

Ships from:

Estimated Arrival:

May 22 -May 24

Available Copies:

10+ Copies

Ready To Buy:

Add to Cart

Secure Transaction

Sold By:

Readara.com

Add to My Wishlist

I want 10 - 1,000 copies

Book Description

In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham's Political Tactics, this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies. The contributors - sociologists, political scientists, historians, and legal scholars - consider the micro-technology of voting (the devil is in the detail), the historical relations between the secret ballot and universal suffrage, the use and abolition of secret voting in parliamentary decisions, and the sometimes perverse effects of the drive for greater openness and transparency in public affairs. The authors also discuss the normative questions of secret versus public voting in national elections and of optimal mixes of secrecy and publicity, as well as the opportunities for strategic behavior created by different voting systems. Together with two previous volumes on Collective Wisdom (Cambrige, 2012) and Majority Decisions (Cambridge, 2014), the book sets a new standard for interdisciplinary work on collective decision-making.

Author Bio

Before coming to Columbia University, he taught in Paris, Oslo and Chicago.

His publications include Ulysses and the Sirens (1979), Sour Grapes (1983), Making Sense of Marx (1985), The Cement of Society (1989), Solomonic Judgements (1989), Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (1989), Local Justice (1992) and Political Psychology (1993).

His research interests include the theory of rational choice, the theory of distributive justice and the history of social thought (Marx and Tocqueville). He is currently working on a comparative study of constitution-making processes from the Federal Convention to the present and on a study of retroactive justice in countries that have recently emerged from authoritarian or totalitarian rule. Research interests include Theory of Rational Choice and the Theory of Distributive Justice.

Research Interest

Theory of Rational Choice

Theory of Distributive Justice

Robert K. Merton Professor of the Social Sciences

Political Science

Ph.D., University of Paris (1972)

Source: Columbia University