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Ideology and existence of 50%-majority equilibria in multidimensional spatial voting models

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  • Hervé Crès

    (GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Utku Ünver

Abstract

When aggregating individual preferences through the majority rule in an n-dimensional spatial voting model, the 'worst-case' scenario is a social choice configuration where no political equilibrium exists unless a super-majority rate as high as 1 -- 1/(n+1) is adopted. In this paper we assume that a lower d-dimensional (d
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  • Hervé Crès & Utku Ünver, 2005. "Ideology and existence of 50%-majority equilibria in multidimensional spatial voting models," Post-Print halshs-00006729, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00006729
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    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
    • D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
    • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design

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