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Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2018 Dans ce numéro très riche et varié, nos lecteurs n’hésiteront pas à trouver un fil rouge, qui représente l’esprit de notre revue : Condorcet. L’interdisciplinarité de sa réflexion rend sa rencontre une évidence et une nécessité pour les spécialistes des ...
Manuela Albertone
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The Birth of the Idea of Perfectibility: From the Enlightenment to Transhumanism [PDF]
, 2019 Starting from the Age of Enlightenment, a person’s ability of self-improvement, or perfectibility, is usually seen as a fundamental human feature. However, this term, introduced into the philosophical vocabulary by J.-J.
Ugleva, Anastasia, Vinogradova, Olga
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Set-Rationalizable Choice and Self-Stability
, 2009 A common assumption in modern microeconomic theory is that choice should be rationalizable via a binary preference relation, which \citeauthor{Sen71a} showed to be equivalent to two consistency conditions, namely $\alpha$ (contraction) and $\gamma ...
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Analysing the Compensatory Properties of the Outranking Approach PROMETHEE
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Volume 32, Issue 2, August 2025.ABSTRACT The PROMETHEE methods are increasingly applied in environmental and public policy decision‐making due to their comprehensiveness and explainability. However, the literature contains differing statements regarding their compensatory properties. Compensation in multiple criteria decision aggregation procedures is commonly understood as allowing ...
Sebastian Schär +2 more
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Domestic Misfits, Social Physics and the Problem of International Statistical Standardization
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 111-122, June 2025.ABSTRACT During the 19th century, driven by the ideas of Adolphe Quetelet, population statistics were actively being developed and debated by many nascent nation‐states. The International Statistical Institute (ISI) was one of the premier statistical organizations of the 19th and 20th centuries that possessed a very international and prestigious ...
Kathryn Barber
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Binary Self‐Selective Voting Rules
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 27, Issue 3, June 2025.ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel binary stability property for voting rules—called binary self‐selectivity—by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itself in pairwise elections will choose not to do so. In Theorem 1, we show that a neutral voting rule is binary self‐selective if and only if it is universally self ...
Héctor Hermida‐Rivera +1 more
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Voting on Vaccinations: The Political Legitimacy of Referendums on Science‐Related Questions
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 3, June 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, I ask whether a referendum is more legitimate than parliamentary voting as a procedure to reach a collective decision on the question of mandatory vaccinations. Since I define both procedures as applications of binary majority rule, I start by exploring the political legitimacy of such rule.
Malvina Ongaro
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Condorcet domains and distributive lattices [PDF]
Condorcet domains are sets of linear orders where Condorcet's effect can never occur. Works of Abello, Chameni-Nembua, Fishburn and Galambos and Reiner have allowed a strong understanding of a significant class of Condorcet domains which are distributive
Bernard Monjardet
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Possible Winners in Noisy Elections [PDF]
, 2014 We consider the problem of predicting winners in elections, for the case where we are given complete knowledge about all possible candidates, all possible voters (together with their preferences), but where it is uncertain either which candidates exactly
Faliszewski, Piotr +3 more
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