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Democracy resolves conflicts in difficult games like Prisoners’ Dilemma and Chicken by stabilizing their cooperative outcomes. It does so by transforming these games into games in which voters are presented with a choice between a cooperative outcome and a Pareto-inferior noncooperative...
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. The voters must choose a subset of K. We define a class of voting schemes called voting by committees. The main result of … the paper is a characterization of voting by committees, which is the class of all voting schemes that satisfy voter … Groves and Clarke scheme in that it characterizes all of the non-manipulable voting schemes on an important domain. …
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The problem of manipulation in voting is studied in the case of multi-valued choice. Well-known and new schemes of … voting procedures allowing multi-valued choices. The results obtained are presented for five voting rules. …
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A celebrated result of Black (1984a) demonstrates the existence of a simple majority winner when preferences are single-peaked. The social choice follows the preferences of the median voter's most preferred outcome beats any alternative. However, this conclusion does not extend to elections in...
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In this paper, concepts from the theory of electoral competition are applied to the classical problem of dividing one unit of a homogeneous good. If the Uncovered set selects almost all divisions, other concepts (Minimal Covering set, Bipartisan set) predict that very unequal divisions are not...
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