2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Judgment Aggregation
Authors : Dorothea Baumeister, Gábor Erdélyi, Jörg Rothe
Published in: Economics and Computation
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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, we were concerned with making collective decisions by voting, i.e., with methods for how to aggregate the voters’ individual preferences so as to determine the winning alternative(s) as a collective consensus. In the present chapter, we turn to the closely related topic of judgment aggregation, i.e., to methods for how to aggregate the individual judgments of a number of judges so as to determine the joint judgment(s) as a collective consensus.