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Strategy-proof voting for single issues and cabinets

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  • Stefan Maus
  • Hans Peters

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  • Ton Storcken

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In a model with a continuum of voters with symmetric single-peaked preferences on the one-dimensional unit interval (representing the political spectrum) a voting rule assigns to each profile of votes a point in the interval. We characterize all voting rules that are strategy-proof, anonymous, Pareto optimal, and which satisfy a weak form of continuity. This result paves the way for studying cabinet formation rules. A cabinet is an interval which has obtained sufficiently many votes. The main result on cabinet formation is a characterization of all cabinet formation rules that are strategy-proof with respect to the endpoints of the cabinet, anonymous, Pareto optimal, and continuous. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Public Choice.

Volume (Year): 126 (2006)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 27-43

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Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:126:y:2006:i:1:p:27-43

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  1. Hans Peters & Souvik Roy & Ton Storcken, 2011. "Strategy-proof voting rules on a multidimensional policy space for a continuum of voters with elliptic preferences," SERIEs, Spanish Economic Association, vol. 2(4), pages 485-496, December.

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