Majority voting on restricted domains
In judgment aggregation, unlike preference aggregation, not much is known about domain restrictions that guarantee consistent majority outcomes. We introduce several conditions on individual judgments sufficient for consistent majority judgments. Some are based on global orders of propositions or individuals, others on local orders, still others not on orders at all. Some generalize classic social-choice-theoretic domain conditions, others have no counterpart. Our most general condition generalizes Sen's triplewise value-restriction, itself the most general classic condition. We also prove a new characterization theorem: for a large class of domains, if there exists any aggregation function satisfying some democratic conditions, then majority voting is the unique such function. Taken together, our results support the robustness of majority rule.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2010 Elsevier B.V. |
| Keywords | Judgment aggregation; Domain restriction; Majority voting; Consistency; Value-restriction; Analogues of single-peakedness; May's theorem |
| Departments |
Government CPNSS Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jet.2010.01.003 |
| Date Deposited | 08 May 2010 12:46 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27902 |