<DIV><DIV>?A major piece of work . . . a classic. There is no<BR>other book like it.”<BR>?Norman Schofield, Washington University<BR><BR>?The authors succeed brilliantly in tackling a large<BR>number of important questions concerning the<BR>interaction among voters and elected representatives<BR>in the political arena, using a common, rigorous<BR>language.”<BR>?Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania<BR><BR><I>Positive Political Theory II: Strategy and Structure</I><BR>is the second volume in Jeffrey Banks and David<BR>Austen-Smith's monumental study of the links<BR>between individual preferences and collective choice.<BR>The book focuses on representative systems, including<BR>both elections and legislative decision-making<BR>processes, clearly connecting individual preferences to<BR>collective outcomes. This book is not a survey. Rather,<BR>it is the coherent, cumulative result of the authors'<BR>brilliant efforts to indirectly connect preferences to<BR>collective choice through strategic behaviors such as<BR>agenda-selection and voting.<BR><BR>The book will be an invaluable reference and teaching<BR>tool for economists and political scientists, and an<BR>essential companion to any scholar interested in the<BR>latest theoretical advances in positive political theory.<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV>