Complex Collective Decisions and the Probability of Collective Inconsistencies [PDF]
Many groups are required to make collective decisions over multiple interconnected propositions. The "doctrinal paradox" or "discursive dilemma" shows that propostionwise majority voting can lead to inconsistent collective outcomes, even when the ...
Christian List
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An intelligent methodology for the use of multi-criteria decision analysis in impact assessment: the case of real-world offshore construction. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Tsakalerou M, Efthymiadis D, Abilez A.
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A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France. [PDF]
Harm Reduct J, 2022 Goulian A +4 more
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Guilbaud's Theorem : An early contribution to judgment aggregation [PDF]
In a paper published in 1952, the French mathematician Georges-Théodule Guilbaud has generalized Arrow's impossibility result to the "logical problem of aggregation", thus anticipating the literature on abstract aggregation theory and judgment ...
Bernard Monjardet, Daniel Eckert
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Welfare Maximization Entices Participation [PDF]
, 2015 We consider randomized mechanisms with optional participation. Preferences over lotteries are modeled using skew-symmetric bilinear (SSB) utility functions, a generalization of classic von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions. We show that every welfare-
Brandl, Florian +2 more
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Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 de Courson B +3 more
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Introduction to social choice and welfare [PDF]
Social choice theory is concerned with the evaluation of alternative methods of collective decision-making, as well as with the logical foundations of welfare economics.
Kotaro Suzumura
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Testing Top Monotonicity [PDF]
, 2014 Top monotonicity is a relaxation of various well-known domain restrictions such as single-peaked and single-crossing for which negative impossibility results are circumvented and for which the median-voter theorem still holds.
Aziz, Haris
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The Marquis de Condorcet goes to Bern [PDF]
, 2018 ‘Condorcet cycles' (or ‘paradoxes of cyclical majorities') are an empirically rare phenomenon. A referendum in the Swiss canton of Bern on 28 November 2004 presents a rare occurrence. This study presents a new multi-option referendum procedure that makes
Bochsler, Daniel
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Economics of the community mechanism. [PDF]
Jpn Econ Rev (Oxf), 2022 Ogaki M.
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