Individual powers and social consent: an axiomatic approach |
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Authors: | Biung-Ghi Ju |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, Korea University, 5-1 Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-701, Korea
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Abstract: | We introduce a notion of conditionally decisive powers the exercise of which depends on social consent. Decisive powers, or the so-called libertarian rights, are examples and much weaker forms of powers are covered by our notion. We provide an axiomatic characterization of existence of a system of powers and its uniqueness as well as characterizations of various families of rules represented by systems of powers. Critical axioms are monotonicity, independence and symmetric linkage (person i and i’s issues should be treated symmetrically to person j and j’s issues for at least one linkage between issues and persons). |
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