1 Introduction and overview 1a Methodology: an underlying distribution approach 1b The meta-issue: to hate or to love? Part 1 The USA in 2020 2,3,4 What were Chapters 2, 3 and 4 are now at: Trump: Mass, Space and Time in USA Elections, 1789-2020 5, 6, 7, 8 What were Chapters 5 to 8 are now at: Part 2 Satisfaction and democracy 11 Satisfaction with democracy Part 5 12 Value spaces Part 3 Optimal social choice 13 Optimal social choice, preference functions: Peter Emerson and Dublin City Council 14 Optimal social choice, value functions: social design, ethics and the amount of value Part 4 Opinion dynamics 15 A gravitational model of flows in political opinion space, UK 2017 16 The contagion of opinion: Herd behaviour in markets, polities, cultures and technologies 17 Democracy and social progress, worldwide 18 Better world, worse democracy?… These are drafts and are in the process of revision. |
