Kalai, Ehud; Muller, Eitan; Satterthwaite, Mark - In: Public Choice 34 (1979) 1, pp. 87-97
The paper shows that if the class of admissible preference orderings is restricted in a manner appropriate for economic and political models, then Arrow's impossibility theorem for social welfare functions continues to be valid. Specifically if the space of alternatives is R <Stack> <Subscript>+</Subscript> <Superscript> n </Superscript> </Stack>, n ≥ 3,...</superscript></subscript></stack>