Special majority rules necessary and sufficient condition for quasi-transitivity with quasi-transitive individual preferences

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 99-106 - 1986
S. K. Jain1
1Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India

Tóm tắt

A condition on preferences called strict Latin Square partial agreement is introduced and is shown to be necessary and sufficient for quasi-transitivity of the social weak preference relation generated by any special majority rule, under the assumption that individual preferences themselves are quasi-transitive.

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