Aggregation theory and the relevance of some issues to others

Article dans une revue: 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.

Auteur(s)

Franz Dietrich

Revue
  • Journal of Economic Theory
Date de publication
  • 2015
Mots-clés JEL
D70 D71
Mots-clés
  • Judgment aggregation
  • Generalized Arrow theorem
  • Generalized premise-based and sequential-priority rules
  • Priority graph
  • Aggregation of non-binary evalua-tions
Pages
  • 463-493
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 160