Judgment aggregation and agenda manipulation
Article dans une revue: When individual judgments ('yes' or 'no') on some propositions are aggregated into collective judgments, outcomes may be sensitive to the choice of propositions under consideration (the agenda). Such agenda-sensitivity opens the door to manipulation by agenda setters. I define three types of agenda-insensitivity ('basic', 'full', and 'focal') and for each type axiomatically characterize the aggregation procedures satisfying it. Two axioms turn out to be central for agenda-insensitivity: the familiar independence axiom, requiring propositionwise aggregation, and the axiom of implicit consensus preservation, requiring the respect of any (possibly implicit) consensus. As the paper's second contribution, I prove a new impossibility theorem whereby these two axioms imply dictatorial aggregation for almost all agendas.
Auteur(s)
Franz Dietrich
Revue
- Games and Economic Behavior
Date de publication
- 2016
Mots-clés JEL
Mots-clés
- Characterization theorems
- Impossibility theorems
- Agenda manipulation
- Description-sensitivity
- Multiple issues
- Judgment aggregation
Pages
- 113-136
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 95