Is There a Paradox of Voting?

Gordon Tullock

Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1992, vol. 4, issue 2, 225-230

Abstract: This paradox of voting in Arrow's theorem has hardly any application to voting in the real world. Arrow, in introducing his theorem, says specifically that it does not apply in those cases in which individuals do not vote according to their elementary preferences, but accept payment of some sort to vote against them. Since log-rolling is usual in most democratic legislatures, the theorem does not apply.

Keywords: Arrow; intransitivity; log-rolling; paradox; voting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1177/0951692892004002006

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