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Erschienen in: Social Choice and Welfare 4/2016

09.12.2015 | Original Paper

Multilevel multidimensional consistent aggregators

verfasst von: Mihir Bhattacharya

Erschienen in: Social Choice and Welfare | Ausgabe 4/2016

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Abstract

This paper examines the structure of consistent, multidimensional, multilevel aggregators in two distinct models- one, where the set of evaluations is the unit interval and the other, where it is finite. In the first model, we characterize a class of separable rules called component-wise \(\alpha \)-median rules. In the finite model, separability is no longer guaranteed. In addition to consistency, stronger notions of unanimity and anonymity are required to characterize a class of separable rules called bipartite rules.

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Fußnoten
1
Katz (1998) and Samuels and Snyder (2001) provide empirical evidence of gerrymandering in different electoral systems and countries respectively.
 
2
Alternatively, voters submit a ‘vote’ for an alternative which is aggregated into a single alternative.
 
3
Macé (2013) provides another model of aggregation over evaluations.
 
4
The literature on fuzzy set aggregation deals with various versions of the consistency axiom in the one-dimensional model. Dubois and Prade (1985) and Marichal (2009) provide extensive surveys of this literature.
 
5
Perote-Peña (2005), Bervoets and Merlin (2012) and Plott (1973) analyze models that are similar in spirit to ours with related notions of consistency.
 
6
Recall that Chambers (2008) uses a different notion of representative consistency.
 
7
There is a fairly extensive literature on the aggregation of sets of issues/alternatives—see for instance, Barberà et al. (1991), Plott (1973), Goodin and List (2006) and Kasher and Rubinstein (1997).
 
8
See List and Puppe (2009) for a comprehensive survey of this literature.
 
9
intBox(.) denotes the interior of Box(.).
 
10
\(A^{C}\) is the complement of set A.
 
11
Recall that \(\mathbf{0}=(0,0,\ldots ,0) \in {A}\) and \(\mathbf{1} = (1,1,\ldots ,1) \in {A}.\)
 
12
Recall that component anonymity only states that the aggregator is invariant only over the issue for which the opinions are permuted.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Multilevel multidimensional consistent aggregators
verfasst von
Mihir Bhattacharya
Publikationsdatum
09.12.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Social Choice and Welfare / Ausgabe 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0176-1714
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-217X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-015-0938-8

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