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Condorcet Winners And Social Acceptability

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  • Muhammad Mahajne

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  • Oscar Volij

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We say that an alternative is socially acceptable if the number of individuals who rank it among their most preferred half of the alternatives is at least as large as the number of individuals who rank it among the least preferred half. A Condorcet winner may not necessarily be socially acceptable. However, if preferences are single-peaked, single-dipped, or satisfy the single-crossing property, any Condorcet winner is socially acceptable. We identify maximal families of preferences that guarantee that Condorcet winners are socially acceptable.
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  • Muhammad Mahajne & Oscar Volij, 2018. "Condorcet Winners And Social Acceptability," Working Papers 1812, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Condorcet winner; single-peaked preferences; single-crossing;
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    JEL classification:

    • D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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