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Agenda Manipulation-Proofness,Stalemates, And The Worth Of Redundant Elicitation In Preference Aggregation. Exposing The Bright Side Of Arrow'S Theorem

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  • Stefano Vannucci

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This paper provides a general framework to explore the possibility of agenda manipulation-proof and proper consensus-based preference aggregation rules, so powerfully called in doubt by a disputable if widely shared understanding of Arrow’s ‘general possibility theorem’. We consider two alternative versions of agenda manipulation-proofness for social welfare functions, that are distinguished by ‘parallel’ vs. ‘sequential’ execution of agenda formation and preference elicitation, respectively. Under the ‘parallel’ version, it is shown that a large class of anonymous and idem-potent social welfare functions that satisfy both agenda manipulation-proofness and strategy-proofness on a natural domain of single-peaked ‘meta-preferences’ induced by arbitrary total preference preorders are indeed available. It is only under the second, ‘sequential’ version that agenda manipulation-proofness on the same natural domain of single-peaked ‘meta-preferences’ is in fact shown to be equivalent to the classic Arrowian ‘independence of irrelevant alternatives’ for social welfare functions. In particular, it is shown that combining such ‘sequential’ version of agenda manipulation-proofness with a very minimal requirement of distributed responsiveness results in a characterization of the ‘global stalemate’ social welfare function, the constant function which invariably selects universal social indi¤erence. It is also argued that, altogether, the foregoing results provide new significant insights concerning the actual content and the constructive implications of Arrow’s ‘general possibility theorem’ from a mechanism-design perspective

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  • Stefano Vannucci, 2022. "Agenda Manipulation-Proofness,Stalemates, And The Worth Of Redundant Elicitation In Preference Aggregation. Exposing The Bright Side Of Arrow'S Theorem," Department of Economics University of Siena 881, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
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    Agenda manipulation; strategy-proofness; social welfare functions; aggregation; median join-semilattices.;
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    • D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations

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