Abstract
This paper concerns voting with logical consequences, which means that anybody voting for an alternative x should vote for the logical consequences of x as well. Similarly, the social choice set is also supposed to be closed under logical consequences. The central result of the paper is that, given a set of fairly natural conditions, the only social choice functions that satisfy social logical closure are oligarchic (where a subset of the voters are decisive for the social choice). The set of conditions needed for the proof include a version of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives that also plays a central role in Arrow's impossibility theorem.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 181-190 |
Journal | Economics and Philosophy |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Educational Sciences
- Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics