Social Choice and Welfare

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Social Choice and Welfare is an interdisciplinary journal exploring all aspects of welfare economics, collective choice, and strategic interaction.

Addresses the ethical and positive aspects of welfare economics and collective choice theory.
Explores issues in social choice and voting theory, as well as all aspects of welfare theory.
Emphasizes theory, but also publishes related empirical work
Cuts across the boundaries of economics, political science, philosophy, and mathematics.

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Participatory budgeting is a process in which a municipality allocates a portion of its budget to be decided through voting.

Collection

Social choice engineering is concerned with the development of methods that are directly aimed at real-world applications of social choice theory.

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June 2026 Volume 66, Issue 4

Do grades have absolute meaning? An experiment on majority judgment
Théo Delemazure
Roberto Brunetti
Sylvain Bouveret
Original Paper 10 June 2026
Formation of teams in contests: tradeoffs between inter- and intra-team inequalities
Hideo Konishi
Chen-Yu Pan
Dimitar Simeonov
Original Paper Open access 03 June 2026
Arrovian independence and the aggregation of choice functions
Claudio Kretz
Clemens Puppe
Original Paper 29 April 2026
Agenda manipulation under doctrinal paradox
Masaki Miyashita
Original Paper Open access 28 April 2026
Revisiting J. S. Mill’s methods: causal inference and social choice theory
Takahiro Suzuki
Masahide Horita
Original Paper Open access 28 April 2026

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Electronic ISSN: 1432-217X
Print ISSN: 0176-1714
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