Majority voting and the single-crossing property when voters belong to separate groups

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Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2013
Volume: 118
Issue: 3
Pages: 523-525

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Abstract

We provide conditions under which a Condorcet winner exists when voters are exogenously distributed in groups, with preferences satisfying the single-crossing property separately inside each group. We also show that the majority voting social preference is acyclic.

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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:118:y:2013:i:3:p:523-525
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General
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1
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2026-01-25