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On accessibility of the core in mutidimensional spatial majority voting situations

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  • Anindya Bhattacharya
  • Francesco Ciardiello

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In this paper we consider situations of (multidimensional) spatial majority voting. We analyze such situations having an even number (greater than or equal to 4) of voters and assume that each voter's preference over the set of policies is ``Euclidean": i.e., each voter has a most preferred ``ideal" policy and the voter's pay-offs from policies decrease as the (Euclidean) distance of the policies from the ideal policy goes up. We confine attention to voting situations for which the core has a single element belonging to the interior of the policy set. It is known that under conditions usual in this literature, this element of the core, generally, is not a Condorcet winner: i.e., there is at least one policy outside the core such that the core-policy cannot be reached from it by just one round of majority domination. We demonstrate that, however, under such conditions, starting from any policy in place, by a finite sequence of majority-dominations (we assume, implicitly, sincere voting) the policy in the core is reached eventually.

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  • Anindya Bhattacharya & Francesco Ciardiello, 2026. "On accessibility of the core in mutidimensional spatial majority voting situations," Papers 2609.10029, arXiv.org.
  • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2609.10029
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