Laslier, Jean-François - In: Public Choice 153 (2012) 3, pp. 269-277
The voting rule proposed by Basset and Persky (Public Choice 99:299–310, <CitationRef CitationID="CR2">1999</CitationRef>) picks the alternative with the best median evaluation. This paper shows that this MaxMed principle is equivalent to the MaxMin (so-called Rawls’) principle, with the proviso that one can discard half of the...</citationref>