Order restricted preferences and majority rule
โ Scribed by P. Rothstein
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 666 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0176-1714
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This paper considers the construction of sets of preferences that give consistent outcomes under majority voting. Fishburn [7] shows that by combining the concepts of single-peaked and single-troughed preferences (which are themselves examples of value restriction) it is possible to provide a simple
When a group of decision makers with common interests faces a dichotomous choice, the task of deciding may be delegated to a committee consisting of a subset of the original group. This procedure is called a restricted majority decision rule. If each member of the original group is characterized by
Recently, Karotkin (1993) has shown that in the symmetric uncertain dichotomous choice model the set of restricted majority rules (RMRs) is special in the sense that a member of this family of rules is always the worst rule among the potentially optimal weighted majority rules (WMRs). In the curren