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On the Realizability of Social Preferences in Three-Party Parliamentary

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  • Kazuya Kikuchi

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It is widely held that compared with a legislature with a single majority party, a multi-party legislature achieves more precise representation of society. But the scope of such an advantage that a multi-party system has is rarely discussed. We study the range of social preferences that a three-party system can realize through majority voting. We present a procedure to construct a three-party system that will induce the policy choice specified by a given social preference relation. We provide a sufficient condition for a social preference relation to be compatible with some three-party system. The condition describes a certain restriction on the structure of cycles of social preferences.

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  • Kazuya Kikuchi, 2013. "On the Realizability of Social Preferences in Three-Party Parliamentary," Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series gd12-290, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    • Handle: RePEc:hst:ghsdps:gd12-290
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