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Gaertner, Wulf - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 131-170). 2002

This chapter discusses different types of domain restrictions. We begin by analyzing various qualitative conditions on preference profiles. Value-restricted preferences (with single-peaked preferences as one of its subcases), limited agreement as well as antagonistic and dichotomous preferences...

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Chapter 2 Categories of arrovian voting schemes

Aleskerov, Fuad - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 95-129). 2002

which the individual opinions about the alternatives are defined, as well as to the form of desired social decision. These … types of rules are Social Decision Rules, Functional Voting Rules, and Social Choice Correspondences. Consideration is given … schemes are given. The notion of “rationality” of individual opinions and social decision is described. Various types of …

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Biased experts, majority rule, and the optimal composition of committee

Name Correa, Alvaro J.; Yildirim, Huseyin - 2018

A committee of experts votes between a multi-attribute alternative and status quo. Each expert is a biased specialist who can privately evaluate only one attribute and puts more weight on it. We study whether a social-minded principal would compose the committee of more or less biased experts....

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Chapter Twenty-Five. Strategyproof Social Choice

Barberà, Salvador - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 731-831). 2011

This chapter surveys the literature on strategy proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models.

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Voting over law enforcement : mission impossible

İnal, Hakan - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 3, pp. 349-360

Median voter theorem has been used in many economic environments including law enforcement. Assumptions of the median voter theorem, however, are generally violated in lawenforcement models. Moreover, it is impossible to have agents with "opposite equilibrium preferences" over enforcement levels...

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Voting Power in the EU Council of Ministers and Fair Decision Making in Distributive Politics

Le Breton, Michel; Montero, María; Zaporozhets, Vera - 2012

We analyze and evaluate the different decision rules describing the Council of Ministers of the EU starting from 1958 … propose a methodology for the design of the optimal (fair) decision rules. We perform the optimization exercise for the …

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Coalition Decisions and Simple Majority Rule

Xu, Yongsheng - 2008

We study simple majority rule from a perspective of coalitional decision makings. Four attrative properties each …

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An individual manipulability of positional voting rules

Aleskerov, Fuad T.; Karabekyan, Daniel; Sanver, M. Remzi; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 431-446

We study a problem of individual manipulation in an impartial culture (IC) framework using computer modeling. We estimate the degree of manipulability of ten positional voting rules in the case of multiple choice for 3 and 4 alternatives. -- manipulability ; positional voting rules ; multiple...

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Chapter 7 Positional rules of collective decision-making

Pattanaik, Prasanta K. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 361-394). 2002

social decision rules. We define alternative notions of positionality and give several examples. Section 4 discusses the … positionalist decision procedures in the context of the conditions figuring in Arrow's celebrated impossibility theorem and also in … and the Borda decision rule. Some well-known axiomatic characterizations of the Borda ranking rule and the Borda decision …

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Simple decision rules in small groups : collegial rule vs. rotational rule

Shadmehr, Mehdi - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 113 (2015), pp. 51-63

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