We study simple majority rule for a fixed profile of individuals' preferences and a variable society. Four properties each linking decisions by a group to decisions by its various subgroups are introduced, and are used for characterizing simple majority rule.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an econometric model to empirically analyze the influence of production patterns and transaction style on raw milk quality. More specifically, the paper examines the effects of these institutions on both nutrition and safety aspects of raw milk...

The issue of economy of scale exists both in terms of the quantity of agricultural production and also in its quality aspect. From the perspective of production cost, we build an agrifood quality-cost function and its elasticity estimation model and then empirically estimate this model in...

In this article we study three types of uncitedness in Library and Information Science journals: uncitedness for articles, authors and topics. One important aspect in this study is giving accurate definitions of the indicators for measuring uncited papers, uncited authors and uncited topics. It...