A necessary and sufficient single-profile condition for transitivity of the majority rule relation

Dimitrios Xefteris

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 3, 516-518

Abstract: It is demonstrated that a preference profile will generate a transitive majority rule relation if and only if it is not balanced, a single-profile counterpart to a violation of value restriction.

Keywords: Majority rule; Transitivity; Balancedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.053

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