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Majority vote following a debate

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  • VIEILLE, Nicolas
  • GILBOA, Itzhak

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Voters determine their preferences over alternatives based on cases (or arguments) that are raised in the public debate. Each voter is characterized by a matrix, measuring how much support each case lends to each alternative, and her ranking is additive in cases. We show that the majority vote in such a society can be any function from sets of cases to binary relations over alternatives. A similar result holds for voting with quota in the case of two alternatives.

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  • VIEILLE, Nicolas & GILBOA, Itzhak, 2002. "Majority vote following a debate," HEC Research Papers Series 761, HEC Paris.
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    Keywords

    Case-based decision theory; voting theory; debates;
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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