Puppet Mastery Book Shelf

Stephen Downes-Martin, PhD

stephen.downesmartin@gmail.com

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Before you can become a Puppet Master, you must understand how to use analysis, psychology, mathematics and other tools properly to support decision making. Only then can you bend these techniques to your will when dealing with willfully ignorant colleagues and superiors. These books and briefings are a good place to start:

Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data, Alan Agresti, Wiley 2010

Behavioral Social Choice, Michel Regenwetter, Bernard Grofman, Ilia Tsetlin, & A. A. J. Marley, Cambridge University 2006

Gaming the Vote, William Poundstone, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008

How to Use and Abuse MCDA and Consensus Support Methods, David W. Mason, National Defence HQ Canada 2004

Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, Alan Agresti, Wiley-Interscience 2007

Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations, Dietrich Dörner, Addison Wesley 1997

Mathematics and Politics, Alan D. Taylor, & Allison M. Pacelli, Springer 2008

Measurement of Voting Power, Dan S. Felsenthal, Maurice Machover & Moshé Machover, University of Michigan 1998

Multiple Criteria Decision Making by Multiobjective Optimization, Ignacy Kaliszewski, Janusz Miroforidis & Dmitry Podkopaev, Springer 2016

Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making, Howard Raiffa, Harvard University Press 2002

New rank correlation coefficient with application to the consensus ranking problem, Edward J. Emond & David W. Mason, Journal of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis Vol 11, Issue 1, Pp 17-28, 2002

Preference Rankings: An Axiomatic Approach, John G. Kemeny & James Laurie Snell, Chapter II of Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences, pp 9--23, Hathi Trust and MIT 1962

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Richards J. Heuer, CIA 1999

Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation, Alan D. Taylor, Cambridge University Press 2005

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, John Von Neumann, & Oskar Morgenstern, Princeton University 1994

Winner's Curse, Richard H. Thaler, Free Press 1991