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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Comment on Choice Rules and Median Outcomes

Authors : Jon X. Eguia, Francesco Giovannoni

Published in: The Political Economy of Governance

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter studies one particular property of voting rules in applications in which the choice set is one-dimensional: whether the median alternative is chosen. Our results suggest that with three or more alternatives, it is difficult to rule out non-median outcomes, even if all voters have linear Euclidean preferences.

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Footnotes
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The median party is the party which is the ideal party of the median voter.
 
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Metadata
Title
A Comment on Choice Rules and Median Outcomes
Authors
Jon X. Eguia
Francesco Giovannoni
Copyright Year
2015
Book
The Political Economy of Governance

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-15550-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-15551-7

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15551-7_14