Arrow's Possibility Theorem for one-dimensional single-peaked preferences

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Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2008
Volume: 64
Issue: 2
Pages: 533-547

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Abstract

In one-dimensional environments with single-peaked preferences we consider social welfare functions satisfying Arrow's requirements, i.e. weak Pareto and independence of irrelevant alternatives. When the policy space is a one-dimensional continuum such a welfare function is determined by a collection of 2N strictly quasi-concave preferences and a tie-breaking rule. As a corollary we obtain that when the number of voters is odd, simple majority voting is transitive if and only if each voter's preference is strictly quasi-concave.

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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:64:y:2008:i:2:p:533-547
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
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2026-01-25