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John Duggan 《Social Choice and Welfare》1997,14(4):471-478
Hansson (1969) sets forth four conditions satisfied by no generalized social welfare function (GSWF), a mapping from profiles
of individual preferences to arbitrary social preference relations. Though transitivity is not imposed on social preferences,
one of Hansson’s conditions requires that socially maximal alternatives always exist. Of course, this condition is not satisfied
by the majority GSWF. We prove a generalization of Hansson’s theorem that requires the existence of maximal alternatives only
in very special cases. Our result applies to the majority GSWF and a large class of other GSWFs that sometimes produce no
maximal alternatives.
Received: 10 July 1995/Accepted: 4 March 1996 相似文献
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The structure of fuzzy preferences: Social choice implications 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Gregory Richardson 《Social Choice and Welfare》1998,15(3):359-369
It has been shown that, with an alternative factorization of fuzzy weak preferences into symmetric and antisymmetric components,
one can prove a fuzzy analogue of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem even when the transitivity requirements on individual and
social preferences are very weak. It is demonstrated here that the use of this specification of strict preference, however,
requires preferences to also be strongly connected. In the absence of strong connectedness, another factorization of fuzzy
weak preferences is indicated, for which nondictatorial fuzzy aggregation rules satisfying the weak transitivity requirement
can still be found. On the other hand, if strong connectedness is assumed, the fuzzy version of Arrow's Theorem still holds
for a variety of weak preference factorizations, even if the transitivity condition is weakened to its absolute minimum.
Since Arrow's Impossibility Theorem appeared nearly half a century ago, researchers have been attempting to avoid Arrow's
negative result by relaxing various of his original assumptions. One approach has been to allow preferences – those of individuals
and society or just those of society alone – to be “fuzzy.” In particular, Dutta [4] has shown that, to a limited extent,
one can avoid the impossibility result (or, more precisely, the dictatorship result) by using fuzzy preferences, employing
a particularly weak version of transitivity among the many plausible (but still distinct) definitions of transitivity that
are available for fuzzy preferences.
Another aspect of exact preferences for which the extension to the more general realm of fuzzy preferences is ambiguous is
the factorization of a weak preference relation into a symmetric component (indifference) and an antisymmetric component (strict
preference). There are several ways to do this for fuzzy weak preferences, all of them equivalent to the traditional factorization
in the special case when preferences are exact, but quite different from each other when preferences are fuzzy (see, for example,
[3]).
A recent paper in this journal [1], by A. Banerjee, argues that the choice of definitions for indifference and strict preference,
given a fuzzy weak preference, can also have “Arrovian” implications. In particular, [1] claims that Dutta's version of strict
preference presents certain intuitive difficulties and recommends a different version, with its own axiomatic derivation,
for which the dictatorship results reappear even with Dutta's weak version of transitivity.
However, the conditions used to derive [1]'s version of strict preference imply a restriction on how fuzzy the original weak
preference can be, namely, that the fuzzy weak preference relation must be strongly connected. Without this restriction, I will show that the rest of [1]'s conditions imply yet a third version of strict preference,
for which Dutta's possibility result under weak transitivity still holds. On the other hand, if one accepts the strong connectedness
required in order for it to be valid, I show that [1]'s dictatorship theorem can in fact be strengthened to cover any version of transitivity for fuzzy preferences, no matter how weak, and further, that this dictatorship result holds for any
“regular” formulation of strict preference, including the one originally used by Dutta.
Received: 13 May 1996 / Accepted: 13 January 1997 相似文献
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Yew-Kwang Ng 《Social Choice and Welfare》1999,16(2):197-216
Harsanyi (1997) argues that, for normative issues, informed preferences should be used, instead of actual preferences or
happiness (or welfare). Following his argument allowing him to move from actual to informed preferences to its logical conclusion
forces us to use happiness instead. Where informed preferences differ from happiness due to a pure concern for the welfare
of others, using the former involves multiple counting. This “concerning effect” (non-affective altruism) differs from and
could be on top of the “minding effect” (affective altruism) of being happy seeing or helping others to be happy. The concerning/minding
effect should be excluded/included in social decision. Non-affective altruism is shown to exist in a compelling hypothetical
example. Just as actual preferences should be discounted due to the effects of ignorance and spurious preferences, informed
preferences should also be discounted due to some inborn or acquired tendencies to be irrational, such as placing insufficient
weights on the welfare of the future, maximizing our biological fitness instead of our welfare. Harsanyi's old result on utilitarianism
is however defended against criticisms in the last decade.
Harsanyi (1997) argues, among other things, that in welfare economics and ethics, what are important are people's informed preferences, rather than either their actual preferences (as emphasized by modern economists) or their happiness (as emphasized by early utilitarians). The main purpose of this paper is to argue that, pursuing Harsanyi's argument that
allows him to move from actual to informed preferences to its logical conclusion forces us to happiness as the ultimately
important thing. The early utilitarians were right after all! Since I personally approve of Harsanyi's basic argument, I regard
myself as his follower who becomes more Catholic than the Pope. (It is not denied that, in practice, the practical difficulties
and undesirable side-effects of the procedure of using happiness instead of preferences have to be taken into account. Thus, even if we ultimately wish to maximize the
aggregate happiness of people, it may be best in practice to maximize their aggregate preferences in most instances. This
important consideration will be largely ignored in this paper.) The secondary objective is to give a brief defence of Harsanyi's
(1953, 1955) much earlier argument for utilitarianism (social welfare as a sum of individual utilities) that has received
some criticisms in the last decade. The argument (e.g. Roemer 1996) that Harsanyi's result is irrelevant to utilitarianism
is based on the point that the VNM (von Neumann-Morgenstern) utility is unrelated to the subjective and interpersonally comparable
cardinal utility needed for a social welfare function. Harsanyi's position is defended by showing that the two types of utility
are the same (apart from an indeterminate zero point for the former that is irrelevant for utilitarianism concerning the same
set of people).
Received: 29 May 1997 / Accepted: 3 November 1997 相似文献
4.
Tomoichi Shinotsuka 《Social Choice and Welfare》1997,15(1):21-30
We consider social preferences over infinite horizon intergenerational consumption paths. We use the Mackey topology to define
continuity of social preferences. Our main objective is to generalize one of Diamond’s impossibility theorems. First, we show
that the trivial preference relation is the only asymmetric social preference relation satisfying equity and continuity. Second,
we compare Campbell’s impossibility theorem with ours. Finally we use an order-based notion of myopia and establish another
impossibility result.
Received: 26 August 1994/Accepted: 5 June 1996 相似文献
5.
Antonio Quesada 《Social Choice and Welfare》2003,20(3):363-370
If, for strict preferences, a unique choice function (CF) is used to aggregate preferences position-wise then the resulting
social welfare function (SWF) is dictatorial. This suggests that the task performed by non-dictatorial SWFs must be “more
complex” than just selecting an alternative from a list using a single criterion. This is because the information required
by non-dictatorial SWFs to aggregate preferences cannot be compressed into a CF. It is also shown that the attempt to reduce
the working of a SWF to the working of a CF involves the adoption of certain positional requirements, whose relationship with
the conditions in Arrow's theorem is established.
Received: 28 May 2001/Accepted: 25 March 2002
My deepest gratitude to Donald G. Saari, who rescued this paper from the worst fate, and to the referee, who showed the escape
route. 相似文献
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《Journal of Socio》1995,24(2):261-279
We present a boundedly rational model of choice that makes room for individual values and social influences in a process of preference construction. It takes from the subjective expected utility model the notion that people assess their options in terms of expected outcomes, referenced to personal values, but it presumes that individuals assess sharply truncated lists of relevant options, outcomes and values and apply a classification logic rather than a calculative one. Such a model is consistent with the nature of evolved human cognitive abilities. The model treats cognitive heuristics and various forms of social influence as determinants of selection of the truncated lists and it treats moral norms as classification rules activated when certain actions and outcomes become salient. The model has implications for understanding how political rhetoric affects individual and social preferences and how “hot cognitions” fit into human choice and for developing improved methods of collective decision making. 相似文献
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Marc Vorsatz 《Social Choice and Welfare》2007,28(1):127-141
The aim of this paper is to find normative foundations of Approval Voting when individuals have dichotomous preferences. We show that a social choice function is anonymous, neutral, strategy-proof and strictly monotone if and only if it is Approval Voting and interpret this result as an extension of May’s theorem (Econometrica 20:680–684, 1952). Then, we show that Approval Voting is the only strictly symmetric, neutral and efficient social choice function. This result is related to a characterization of Baigent and Xu (Math Soc Sci 21:21–29, 1991). 相似文献
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Vicki Knoblauch 《Social Choice and Welfare》2001,18(4):823-831
This paper takes voting theory out of the realm of mechanism design and studies elections as tools for representing preferences:
every preference relation on a set of n elements is the outcome of pairwise voting by approximately 2 log2
n voters with transitive preferences. Results like this one provide representation for preference relations not representable
by utility functions. They also motivate definitions of the levels of intransitivity, nonlinearity and nonrepresentability
(by utility function) of a preference relation.
Received: 25 March 1999/Accepted: 19 June 2000 相似文献
9.
Klaus Nehring 《Social Choice and Welfare》1997,14(3):403-425
This paper attempts to provide a unified account of the rationalization of possibly non-binary choice-functions by “Extended
Preference Relations” (relations between sets and elements). The analysis focuses on transitive EPRs for which three choice-functional
characterizations are given, two of them based on novel axioms. Transitive EPRs are shown to be rationalizable by sets of
orderings that are “closed under compromise”; this novel requirement is argued to be the key to establish a canonical relationship
between sets of orderings and choice-functions.
The traditional assumption of “binariness” on preference relations or choice functions is shown to be analytically unhelpful
and normatively unfounded; non-binariness may arise from “unresolvedness of preference”, a previously unrecognized aspect
of preference incompleteness.
Received: 28 August 1995/Accepted: 14 February 1996 相似文献
10.
We develop the general conceptual, mathematical and statistical foundations of behavioral social choice for scoring rules. Traditional scoring rules are difficult to assess empirically because one rarely observes the deterministic
complete linear orders that they require as input. We provide a general concept of scoring rules in terms of a broad range
of mathematical representations of preference or utility, namely arbitrary finite binary relations, probability distributions
over such relations, real valued multi-criteria utility vectors and real valued random utility representations. We extend
Regenwetter et al.’s (Behavioral social choice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006) statistical framework to a more
general setting. We illustrate the general modeling and statistical tools by applying them to four well known sets of survey
data. We illustrate two potential problems that have previously received little attention and that deserve systematic study
in the future: (1) Scoring rule outcomes can suffer from model dependence in that the social welfare functions computed from
ballot, survey, or hypothetical data may depend on implicit or explicit modeling assumptions. (2) Scoring rule outcomes may
suffer from low statistical confidence in that the correct assessment of social orders from empirical data can be far from
certain. We also illustrate the empirical congruence among conceptually competing social choice methods. 相似文献
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In Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem, an impartial observer determines a social ordering of the lotteries on the set
of social alternatives based on a sympathetic but impartial concern for all individuals in society. This ordering is derived
from a more primitive ordering on the set of all extended lotteries. An extended lottery is a lottery which determines both the observer's personal identity and the social
alternative. We establish a version of Harsanyi's theorem in which the observer is only required to have preferences on the
extended lotteries in which there is an equal chance of being any person in society.
Received: 19 June 1996 / Accepted: 30 December 1996 相似文献
13.
Aggregation of fuzzy preferences: Some rules of the mean 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
This paper studies by means of reciprocal fuzzy binary relations the aggregation of preferences when individuals show their
preferences gradually. We have characterized neutral aggregation rules through functions from powers of the unit interval
in the unit interval. Furthermore, we have determined the neutral aggregation rules that are decomposable and anonymous. In
this class of rules, the collective intensity of preference is the arithmetic mean of the values assigned by a function to
the individual intensities of preference. We have also considered the neutral aggregation rules based on quasiarithmetic means.
We have established that this class of rules generalizes the simple majority, when individuals have ordinary preferences and
collective preferences are reciprocal.
Received: 23 April 1999/Accepted: 25 September 1999 相似文献
14.
Peter Klibanoff 《Social Choice and Welfare》2001,18(2):289-301
Uncertainty aversion is often modelled as (strict) quasi-concavity of preferences over uncertain acts. A theory of uncertainty
aversion may be characterized by the pairs of acts for which strict preference for a mixture between them is permitted. This
paper provides such a characterization for two leading representations of uncertainty averse preferences; those of Schmeidler
[24] (Choquet expected utility or CEU) and of Gilboa and Schmeidler [16] (maxmin expected utility with a non-unique prior
or MMEU). This characterization clarifies the relation between the two theories.
Received: 20 February 1998/Accepted: 25 March 1999 相似文献
15.
A. S. Tangian 《Social Choice and Welfare》2000,17(2):337-365
We provide intuitive, formal, and computational evidence that in a large society Condorcet’s paradox (the intransitivity
of social preference obtained by pairwise vote) can hardly occur. For that purpose, we compare two models of social choice,
one based on voting and another one based on summing individual cardinal utilities, expressed either in reals, or integers.
We show that in a probabilistic model with a large number of independent individuals both models, almost surely, provide the
same decision results. This implies that Condorcet’s and Borda’s methods tend to give the same decisions as the number of
voters increases. Therefore, in the model with a large number of voters, the transitivity of the Borda preference is inherent
in a majority preference as well.
Received: 26 June 1998/Accepted: 16 April 1999 相似文献
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While majority cycles may pose a threat to democratic decision making, actual decisions based inadvertently upon an incorrect
majority preference relation may be far more expensive to society. We study majority rule both in a statistical sampling and
a Bayesian inference framework. Based on any given paired comparison probabilities or ranking probabilities in a population
(i.e., culture) of reference, we derive upper and lower bounds on the probability of a correct or incorrect majority social
welfare relation in a random sample (with replacement). We also present upper and lower bounds on the probabilities of majority
preference relations in the population given a sample, using Bayesian updating. These bounds permit to map quite precisely
the entire picture of possible majority preference relations as well as their probabilities. We illustrate our results using
survey data.
Received: 13 November 2000/Accepted: 19 March 2002
This collaborative work was carried out while Regenwetter was a faculty member at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
We thank Fuqua for sponsoring our collaboration and the National Science Foundation for grant SBR-97-30076 to Michel Regenwetter.
We are indebted to the editor and the referees, as well as to Jim Adams, Bob Clemen, Bernie Grofman, Bob Nau, Saša Pekeč,
Jim Smith and Bob Winkler for helpful comments and suggestions. 相似文献
17.
Martin Eiliv Sandbu 《Social Choice and Welfare》2008,31(4):589-619
Much work in social choice theory takes individual preferences as uninvestigated inputs into aggregation functions designed
to reflect considerations of fairness. Advances in experimental and behavioural economics show that fairness can also be an
important motivation in the preferences of individuals themselves. A proper characterisation of how fairness concerns enter
such preferences can enrich the informational basis of many social choice exercises. This paper proposes axiomatic foundations
for individual fairness-motivated preferences that cover most of the models developed to rationalise observed behaviour in
experiments. These models fall into two classes: Outcome-based models, which see preferences as defined only over distributive
outcomes, and context-dependent models, which allow rankings over distributive outcomes to change systematically with non-outcome
factors. I accommodate outcome-based and context-sensitive fairness concerns by modelling fairness-motivated preferences as
a reference-dependent preference structure. I first present a set of axioms and two theorems that generate commonly used outcome-based models as special cases. I then
generalise the axiomatic basis to allow for reference-dependence, and derive a simple functional form in which the weight
on each person’s payoff depends on a reference vector of how much each person deserves. 相似文献
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Valentino Dardanoni 《Social Choice and Welfare》2001,18(1):107-112
In this note I consider a simple proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (Arrow 1963). I start with the case of three individuals
who have preferences on three alternatives. In this special case there are 133=2197 possible combinations of the three individuals' rational preferences. However, by considering the subset of linear preferences, and employing the full strength of the IIA axiom, I reduce the number of cases necessary to completely describe
the SWF to a small number, allowing an elementary proof suitable for most undergraduate students.
This special case conveys the nature of Arrow's result. It is well known that the restriction to three options is not really
limiting (any larger set of alternatives can be broken down into triplets, and any inconsistency within a triplet implies
an inconsistency on the larger set). However, the general case of n≥3 individuals can be easily considered in this framework, by building on the proof of the simpler case. I hope that a motivated
student, having mastered the simple case of three individuals, will find this extension approachable and rewarding.
This approach can be compared with the traditional simple proofs of Barberà (1980); Blau (1972); Denicolò (1996); Fishburn
(1970); Kelly (1988); Mueller (1989); Riker and Ordeshook (1973); Sen (1979, 1986); Suzumura (1988), and Taylor (1995).
Received: 5 January 1999/Accepted: 10 December 1999 相似文献
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Kirsten I. M. Rohde 《Social Choice and Welfare》2010,34(4):537-547
Fehr and Schmidt (FS) introduced an influential social utility function for individuals in interpersonal contexts that captures self-centered inequity aversion. The value of this social utility function lies in its exceptionally good balance between parsimony and fit. This paper provides a preference foundation for exactly the model of FS with preference conditions that exactly capture the exceptionally good balance of FS. Remarkably, FS is a special case of Schmeidler’s rank-dependent utility for decision under uncertainty. 相似文献
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We prove a lemma characterizing majority preferences over lotteries on a subset of Euclidean space. Assuming voters have quadratic von Neumann–Morgenstern utility representations, and assuming existence of a majority undominated (or “core”) point, the core voter is decisive: one lottery is majority-preferred to another if and only if this is the preference of the core voter. Several applications of this result to dynamic voting games are discussed.This paper was completed after Jeff Banks’s death. John Duggan is deeply indebted to him for his friendship and his collaboration on this and many other projects. 相似文献