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Condorcet cycles in bipartite populations

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  • HervÊ CrÉs

    (Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA)

  • Yves Balasko

    (DÊpartement d'êconomÊtrie, UniversitÊ de GenÉve, 102 Bd Carl Vogt, CH-1211 GenÉve 4, Switzerland)

Abstract

Simple majority voting between pairs of alternatives is used to aggregate individual preferences. The occurence of Condorcet cycles is limited thanks to a principle of homogeneity on individual preferences. The restrictions induced on the domain of the latters are weak: among the n! possible orderings of n alternatives, more than one half are admissible within a domain. The resulting aggregated preference has then a neglectable probability of showing up cycles. We show moreover that the set of individual preferences can be `naturally' partitioned into two such domains.

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  • HervÊ CrÉs & Yves Balasko, 1998. "Condorcet cycles in bipartite populations," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 12(2), pages 313-334.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:12:y:1998:i:2:p:313-334
    Note: Received: June 17, 1996; revised version: April 15, 1997
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    Cited by:

    1. Hervé Crès, 2001. "Aggregation of coarse preferences," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 18(3), pages 507-525.
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    3. repec:spo:wpecon:info:hdl:2441/10286 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Hervé Crès, 2000. "Aggregation of Coarse Preferences," SciencePo Working papers hal-01064879, HAL.
    5. Hervé Crès, 2000. "Aggregation of Coarse Preferences," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-01064879, HAL.
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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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