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Majority Rule and Coalitional Stability

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  • Sergio Currarini

    (University of Leicester, University of Venice and CMCC)

  • Marco A. Marini

    (Department of Computer, Control & Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome and CREI)

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In this note we study the centralization vs. decentralization issue for the management of a given collective activity. The aim is to characterize a class of decision rules that guarantees the stability of global cooperation (i.e centralization) against the incentive of coalitions of citizens to opt-out, towards forms of decentralized organizations. We show that a simple majority rule required to break global cooperation guarantees the existence of core-stable allocations, independently of the expected behaviour of individuals in the minority. We also show that if majorities can extract resources from minorities, stability may require a supermajority rule, whose threshold is increasing in its extraction power.

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  • Sergio Currarini & Marco A. Marini, 2013. "Majority Rule and Coalitional Stability," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 33(3), pages 1660-1668.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-13-00404
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    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

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