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“Aggregating judgments by the majority method”

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García-Bermejo, Juan Carlos () (Departamento de Análisis Económico (Teoría e Historia Económica). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.)
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“Judgement aggregation has been receiving increasing attention over recent years. Some typical impossibility results have been proved, about majority and other similar aggregation methods. Those results depend essentially on certain logical constraints borrowed from standard two- valued deductive logic. Nevertheless, the adequacy of these constraints is doubtful. In this paper, we show that by weakening the consistency conditions in a plausible way, such impossibility theorems can be reversed. We also show that the formalism habitually employed in social choice theory may convey a richer setting for analysing this sort of aggregation.”

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Paper provided by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History) in its series Working Papers in Economic Theory with number 2006/10.

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Date of creation: Sep 2006
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Handle: RePEc:uam:wpaper:200610

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Keywords: Judgement aggregation; majority method; logical constraints on judgment aggregation; discursive dilemma;

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D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations

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