and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …

In the article it is called the universality of the ordinal theory of social choice in question. It is shown that a … voting exists that cannot be described on the base of ordinal theory, and to describe it the cardinal point of view is … demanded. In absence of cardinal formalization of basic axioms of the social choice theory it is offered new formal …

The paper challenges the "orthodox doctrine" of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's "general …

In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting … theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow's theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed. Arrow's theory …, there evolved a consistent cardinal theory of collective choice. This theory, most prominently associated with the work of …