Abstract
Consider the following social choice problem. A group of individuals seek to classify the elements of X as belonging in one of two sets. The individuals may disagree as to how the elements of X should be classified, and so an aggregation rule is applied to determine a compromise outcome. We require that the social classification should not be imposed, nor should it be manipulable. We prove that the only aggregation rules satisfying these properties are dictatorships.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 273-282 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | New Mathematics and Natural Computation |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- aggregation
- non-manipulation
- Partitions