Architects of Political Change by Norman Schofield - 9780521539722

Architects of Political Change\n\nConstitutional Quandaries and Social Choice Theory\n\nExplores how leading political figures in Great Britain and the US contributed to profound changes.\n\nNorman Schofield (Author)\n\n9780521539722, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 5 June 2006\n\n354 pages\n23 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.461 kg\n\n\""This is an excellent book. Many key historical figures and well-known events are seen here from a single perspective created by the author using the ideas of social choice theory and models of coalition formation in the policy space. I believe that many readers will want to apply the techniques developed in this book to other historical events.\"" Fuad Aleskerov, State University \u0093Higher School of Economics\u0094, Moscow, Russia and Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Control Sciences\n\nThis work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice theory ]