Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings (Analytical Perspectives on Politics)

Title Page\r......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication\r......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
1. Introduction......Page 13
2. McKelvey\'s Democracy......Page 21
3. Majority Cycling and Agenda Manipulation: Richard McKelvey\'s Contributions and Legacy......Page 31
4. Intransitivities in Multidimensional Voting Models and Some Implications for Agenda Control......Page 53
5. General Conditions for Global Intransitivities in Formal Voting Models......Page 65
6. Statistical Tests of Theoretical Results......Page 105
7. Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections......Page 115
8. Statistical Model for the Analysis of Ordinal Level Dependent Variables......Page 155
9. The Competitive Solution Revisited......Page 177
10. The Competitive Solution for N-Person Games without Transferable Utility, with an Application to Committee Games......Page 199
11. Social Choice and Elections......Page 233
12. Covering, Dominance, and Institution-Free Properties of Social Choice......Page 255
13. Generalized Symmetry Conditions at a Core Point......Page 293
14. Information in Elections......Page 307
15. Elections with Limited Information: A Fulfilled Expectations Model Using Contemporaneous Poll and Endorsement Data as Informatio......Page 327
16. Centipede Game Experiments......Page 361
17. Why the Centipede Game Is Important for Political Science......Page 377
18. Experimental Study of the Centipede......Page 389
19. McKelvey and Quantal Response Equilibrium......Page 437
20. Quantal Response Equilibria for Normal Form Games......Page 453
21. Computation in Finite Games: Using Gambit for Quantitative Analysis......Page 487
What McKelvey Taught Us......Page 501
Index......Page 505