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Manipulation of positional social choice correspondences under incomplete information

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  • Raffaele Berzi
  • Daniela Bubboloni
  • Michele Gori

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We study the manipulability of social choice correspondences in situations where individuals have incomplete information about others' preferences. We propose a general concept of manipulability that depends on the extension rule used to derive preferences over sets of alternatives from preferences over alternatives, as well as on individuals' level of information. We then focus on the manipulability of social choice correspondences when the Kelly extension rule is used, and individuals are assumed to have the capability to anticipate the outcome of the collective decision. Under these assumptions, we introduce some monotonicity properties of social choice correspondences whose combined satisfaction is sufficient for manipulability, prove a result of manipulability for unanimous positional social choice correspondences, and present a detailed analysis of the manipulability properties for the Borda, the Plurality and the Negative Plurality social choice correspondences.

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  • Raffaele Berzi & Daniela Bubboloni & Michele Gori, 2025. "Manipulation of positional social choice correspondences under incomplete information," Papers 2503.23141, arXiv.org.
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