Single-Profile Choice Functions and Variable Societies: Characterizing Approval Voting

Hanji Wu (), Yongsheng Xu and Zhen Zhong ()
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Hanji Wu: Georgia State University
Zhen Zhong: Research Institute of Finance and Banking, the People’s Bank of China

A chapter in Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare, 2015, pp 143-148 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We study approval voting in a setting with a fixed profile of individuals’ choices and variable societies. Four properties each linking choices made by a group of individuals to choices by its various subgroups are introduced, and are used for characterizing approval voting.

Keywords: Approval voting; Choice function; Variable societies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-46439-7_9

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