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Ordinal Simplicity in Discrete Mechanism Design
ABSTRACT In environments without transfers, market designers usually restrict attention to ordinal mechanisms. Ordinal mechanisms are simpler but miss potentially welfare‐relevant information. Under what conditions is it without loss to focus on ordinal mechanisms? We show that all group strategy‐proof mechanisms are ordinal.
Marek Pycia, M. Utku Ünver
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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms.
Paul Cheney
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Caring for minorities: The Flexible Decision Rule
Abstract Simple majority rule disregards the interests of the losing minority; their vote does not affect the outcome. When vote outcomes are narrow, close to 50% of voters, the concerns of a significant part of the voters are disregarded. This increases polarization in the population and endangers democracy.
Bruno S. Frey, Andre Briviba
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Condorcet’s principle and the strong no-show paradoxes [PDF]
Abstract We consider two no-show paradoxes, in which a voter obtains a preferable outcome by abstaining from a vote. One arises when the casting of a ballot that ranks a candidate in first place causes that candidate to lose the election, superseded by a lower-ranked candidate.
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Evaluating blockchain as a participatory organisational system: looking for transaction efficiency
Abstract The article presents a decision‐making model that can be used with blockchain technology. Blockchain is used as an alternative transaction mechanism to authority and the market, where the decision is decentralised within the organisation. Thus, the process is parameterised around the acceptance or not of a project, depending on individual ...
Carlos Sáenz‐Royo +1 more
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Solving Hard Control Problems in Voting Systems via Integer Programming [PDF]
Voting problems are central in the area of social choice. In this article, we investigate various voting systems and types of control of elections. We present integer linear programming (ILP) formulations for a wide range of NP-hard control problems. Our
Berghammer, Rudolf +2 more
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Condorcet's Principle and the Preference Reversal Paradox [PDF]
In Proceedings TARK 2017, arXiv:1707.08250.
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Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism
The power to make constitutions (the so‐called constituent power) is predominantly understood today as a legally unlimited power belonging to the people. This understanding sits uncomfortably with constitutionalism: the idea that public powers are legally limited.
Raffael N. Fasel
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Social justice in fractured times
Abstract The article provides a historical overview of the evolution of social justice, a concept the development of which is interwoven with liberal ideology and practices. The inception of liberalism and its various historical levels are examined, explicating the way social justice arose as a significant social value and shifted as liberal thought ...
Erin Thrift, Jeff Sugarman
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