Many groups have to make decisions over multiple interconnected pro-positions. The doctrinal paradox or discursive dilemma shows that propositionwide majority voting can lead to inconsistent collective outcomes even when individual judgments are all consistent. How likely is the occurrence of...

It is known that, in Condorcet’s classical model of jury decisions, the proportion of jurors supporting a decision is not a significant indicator of that decision’s reliability: the probability that a particular majority decision is correct given the size of the majority depends only on the...

Many groups make decisions over multiple interconnected propositions. The “doctrinal paradox” or “discursive dilemma” shows that propositionwise majority voting can generate inconsistent collective sets of judgments, even when individual sets of judgments are all consistent. I develop a...

Two essential intuitions about the concept of multidimensional inequality have been highlighted in the emerging body of literature on this subject: first, multidimensional inequality should be a function of the uniform inequality of a multivariate distribution of goods or attributes across...

The concept of preference structuration not only provides possible escape-routes for social-choice-theoretic impossibility problems, but also points towards ways of formalizing notions of pluralism, consensus and issue-dimensionality. The present note introduces two methods of (operationally)...