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Meta-agreement and Rational Single-Peaked Preferences

In: Advances in Collective Decision Making

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  • Olivier Roy

    (University of Bayreuth)

  • Maher Jakob Abou Zeid

    (European Commission)

Abstract

We revisit the claim that rationality requires participants in deliberation to form single-peaked preferences once they have reached meta-agreements. We provide two different arguments that cast doubts on this claim. The first points out the rationality of having non-single-peaked preferences in cases where consuming two goods together is less valuable than consuming each of them individually. The second argument fleshes out the notion of meta-agreements in terms of reasons supporting a particular structuring dimension. These arguments show that to the extent that deliberation fosters the formation of meta-agreements and the formation of single-peaked preferences, the bridge between these two notions might not be solely a matter of rational preference formation.

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  • Olivier Roy & Maher Jakob Abou Zeid, 2023. "Meta-agreement and Rational Single-Peaked Preferences," Studies in Choice and Welfare, in: Sascha Kurz & Nicola Maaser & Alexander Mayer (ed.), Advances in Collective Decision Making, pages 85-93, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stcchp:978-3-031-21696-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21696-1_6
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