A simple characterization of majority rule

Jerry S. Kelly and Donald E. Campbell ()
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Jerry S. Kelly: Department of Economics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090, USA
Donald E. Campbell: Department of Economics and The Program in Public Policy, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA

Economic Theory, 2000, vol. 15, issue 3, 689-700

Abstract: Assuming an odd number of voters, E. S. Maskin recently provided a characterization of majority rule based on full transitivity. This paper characterizes majority rule with a set of axioms that includes two of Maskin's, dispenses with another, and contains weak versions of his other two axioms. It allows the number of voters to be odd or even.

Keywords: IIA; Majority; Pareto; Single-peaked; Transitivity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 D63 D71 D74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-04-13
Note: Received: December 23, 1998; revised version: May 10, 1999
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