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Unanimity and the Anscombe’s Paradox

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  • Gilbert Laffond

    () (Laboratoire d'Econometrie, LIRSA)

  • Jean Laine

    () (Murat Sertel Center for Advanced Economic Studies,Istanbul Bilgi University)

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We establish a new suffcient condition for avoiding a generalization of the Anscombe’s paradox. In a situation where ballots describe positions regarding finitely many yes-or-no issues, the Anscombe’s alpha−paradox holds if more than alpha % of the voters disagree with on a majority of issues with the outcome of issue-wise majority voting. We define the level of unanimity of a set of ballots as the number of issues minus the maximal symmetric diatance between two ballots. We compute for the caseof large electorates, the exact level of unanimity above which the Anscombe’s alpha−paradox never holds, whatever the distribution of votes among ballots.

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  • Gilbert Laffond & Jean Laine, 2013. "Unanimity and the Anscombe’s Paradox," Working Papers 201301, Murat Sertel Center for Advanced Economic Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University.
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    1. Gilbert Laffond & Jean Lainé, 2014. "Triple-consistent social choice and the majority rule," TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 22(2), pages 784-799, July.
    2. Nicolas Gabriel Andjiga & Issofa Moyouwou & Monge Kleber Kamdem Ouambo, 2017. "Avoiding Majority Dissatisfaction on a Series of Majority Decisions," Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, vol. 26(3), pages 453-471, May.
    3. repec:spr:qualqt:v:51:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1007_s11135-016-0361-y is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Nicolas Gabriel Andjiga & Issofa Moyouwou & Monge Kleber Kamdem Ouambo, 0. "Avoiding Majority Dissatisfaction on a Series of Majority Decisions," Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-19.

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    Keywords

    Anscombe; Voting Paradox; Majority Rule; Unamity Issue-wise voting;

    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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