Course description
1 Lecture 1: Preliminaries - Democracy and elections
2 Lecture 2: Voting, elections, and electoral systems
3 Lecture 3: Majoritarian electoral (voting) systems: how to choose the winner/winners using varieties of plurality and absolute majority systems?
4 Lecture 4: Proportional representation - apportionment methods
5 Lecture 5: Electoral rules and electoral outcomes
6 Lecture 6: Electoral districts (constituencies): redistricting, gerrymandering, and malapportionment
7 Lecture 7: Voting behavior (1): political participation
8 Lecture 8: Voting behavior (2): How do we decide how to vote?

Intro to ES IPS (WSMiP UŁ)

2.7 Social choice theory

The study of formally defined voting systems is called social choice theory or voting theory, a subfield of political science, economics and mathematics.

Social choice theory is concerned with the study of group decision making processes.