Aggregation theory and the relevance of some issues to others
Journal article: I propose a relevance-based independence axiom on how to aggregate individual yes/no judgments on given propositions into collective judgments: the collective judgment on a proposition depends only on people's judgments on propositions which are relevant to that proposition. This axiom contrasts with the classical independence axiom: the collective judgment on a proposition depends only on people's judgments on the same proposition. I generalize the premise-based rule and the sequential-priority rule to an arbitrary priority order of the propositions, instead of a dichotomous premise/conclusion order resp. a linear priority order. I prove four impossibility theorems on relevance-based aggregation. One theorem simultaneously generalizes Arrow's Theorem (in its general and indifference-free versions) and the well-known Arrow-like theorem in judgment aggregation.
Author(s)
Franz Dietrich
Journal
- Journal of Economic Theory
Date of publication
- 2015
Keywords JEL
Keywords
- Judgment aggregation
- Generalized Arrow theorem
- Generalized premise-based and sequential-priority rules
- Priority graph
- Aggregation of non-binary evalua-tions
Pages
- 463-493
URL of the HAL notice
Version
- 1
Volume
- 160