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Ordinal Simplicity in Discrete Mechanism Design
International Economic Review, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 1665-1680, October 2025.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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Condorcet's Paradox as Non-Orientability
CoRRPreference cycles are prevalent in problems of decision-making, and are contradictory when preferences are assumed to be transitive. This contradiction underlies Condorcet's Paradox, a pioneering result of Social Choice Theory, wherein intuitive and seemingly desirable constraints on decision-making necessarily lead to contradictory preference cycles ...
Ori Livson +2 more
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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 46-74, March 2025.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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On the Significance of the Absolute Margin [PDF]
, 2002 Consider the hypothesis H that a defendant is guilty (a patient has condition C), and the evidence E that a majority of h out of n independent jurors (diagnostic tests) have voted for H and a minority of k:=n-h against H.
List, Christian
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Caring for minorities: The Flexible Decision Rule
Economics &Politics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 1664-1674, November 2024.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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Evaluating blockchain as a participatory organisational system: looking for transaction efficiency
International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 3842-3872, November 2024.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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Condorcet versus participation criterion in social welfare rules [PDF]
, 2017 Moulin (1988) shows that there exists no social choice rule, that satisfies the following two criteria at the same time: the Condorcet criterion and the participation criterion, a.k.a., No Show Paradox. We extend these criteria to social welfare rules, i.
Pourpouneh, Mohsen; id_orcid +3 more
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Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism
The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 4, Page 864-893, July 2024.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
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2024.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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