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The stability of decision making in committees: The one-core

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  • Momo Kenfack, Joseph Armel
  • Pongou, Roland
  • Tchantcho, Bertrand

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We study the stability of decision making in committees. A policy proposal introduced by a committee member is either adopted or abandoned in favor of a new proposal after deliberations. If a proposal is abandoned, it is in spite of the committee member who introduced it, who does not cooperate in any effort to defeat it. Shenoy (1980) proposes the one-core as a solution concept for this game, and shows that this solution may be empty. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a stable policy under the majority rule. This result highlights a trade-off between the size of a committee, the number of competing policy options, and the existence of a stable outcome. Our findings imply a tension between political stability and the existence of a large number of competing interests in democracies.

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  • Momo Kenfack, Joseph Armel & Pongou, Roland & Tchantcho, Bertrand, 2014. "The stability of decision making in committees: The one-core," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 122(3), pages 390-395.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:122:y:2014:i:3:p:390-395
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.12.030
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    Voting; Group decisions; Committee games; Core; One-core;
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    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

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