By the end of this course, students should have learned:
1)  how individuals make rational choices
2)  how individuals' interests can be aggregated into a common, collective choice
3)  how collective choices are affected by institutional structures in
      a. Congress
      b. Bureaucratic agencies
      c. Federal Courts
4)  how collective choices are affected by different electoral procedures

1.  Course Introduction
2.  Prerequisites for an individual's rational choice
3.  Binary relations
4.  Aggregating individual preferences into a collective choice
5.  Tensions between individual rationality and collective rationality
6.  Arrow's Theorem
7.  Robustness issues related to Arrow's results
      a. Black's Theorem
      b. May's Theorem
      c. Plott's Theorem
      d. McKelvey's Theorem
8.  Implications of Arrow's results for political institutions, including
      a. Congress
      b. Bureaucratic Agencies
      c. Federal Courts
9.  Implications of Arrow's results for elections

All academic work must meet the standards contained in "A Culture of Honesty."  
Students are responsible for informing themselves about these standards before 
performing academic work.  The penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and 
ignorance is not an acceptable defense.  Also note that the course syllabus is a 
general plan for the course and that deviations announced to the class by the 
instructor may be necessary.