Seminar Eine Einführung in die Theorie kollektiver Entscheidungen

Course title: An Introduction to Social Choice Theory   The course language is English.   Social choice theory studies the problem of combining the preferences, judgments, and/or interests of a group of individuals in order to reach a collective decision. In addition to inheriting classical decision theoretic problems, new problems arise in the collective setting. So even if all individual preferences, etc. are coherent and rational, it is not guaranteed that a collective decision inherits these properties. Problems regarding the aggregation of individual decisions concern, for example:   * the justification of traditional procedures like majority voting * the effects of cooperation * general (formal) possibility and impossibility results * individual rights and justice * problems relating to the manipulation and manipulability of collective decision processes   In this course we will study Wulf Gaertner's introductory text, in in order to grasp the main concepts, questions, and theorems of social choice theory.   Main reference: Gaertner, Wulf: A Primer in Social Choice Theory. Oxford: OUP, 2009.   Course requirements: For a certificate of attention (BN) active engagement into the discussion and the solution of exercises is required. To complete the seminar with an exam (AP) one can either take an oral exam or hand in a seminar paper. Thorn, Paul , Dr. Universität Düsseldorf WiSe 2016/17 Feldbacher Escamilla Christian