A short step between democracy and dictatorship

DOI10.1007/S11238-011-9244-9MaRDI QIDQ430146zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Quesada

Publication date 20 June 2012

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19455/1/MPRA_paper_19455.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

majoritysocial welfare functionunanimityaxiomatic characterizationdictatorshiptwo alternatives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Voting theory (91B12) Welfare economics (91B15)

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