The Optimal Decision Rule for Fixed-Size Committees in Dichotomous Choice Situations: The General Result

DOI10.2307/2527413MaRDI QIDQ4368652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruth Ben-Yashar, Shmuel Nitzan

Publication date 4 December 1997

Published in International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2527413

zbMATH Keywords

pairwise choiceoptimal decision rulefixed-size committees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06)

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• On the merit of non-specialization in the context of majority voting
• First and second best voting rules in committees
• An application of simple majority rule to a group with an even number of voters
• Inequality of decision-makers' power and marginal contribution
• Is diversity in capabilities desirable when adding decision makers?
• The costs of implementing the majority principle: The golden voting rule
• On the significance of the prior of a correct decision in committees
• Skill, value and remuneration in committees
• Optimal collective dichotomous choice under partial order constraints
• Is specialization desirable in committee decision making?
• The unanimity rule and extremely asymmetric committees
• Heterogeneous expertise and collective decision-making
• Flexible representative democracy
• On the optimal composition of committees
• Introducing difference into the Condorcet jury theorem
• Group disagreement: a belief aggregation perspective
• Beyond Condorcet: optimal aggregation rules using voting records
• General representation of epistemically optimal procedures
• A comment on Koh's ``The optimal design of fallible organizations: invariance of optimal decision criterion and uniqueness of hierarchy and polyarchy structures
• One person, one weight: when is weighted voting democratic?
• Crowdvoting judgment: an analysis of modern peer review
• The optimal design of fallible organizations: invariance of optimal decision criterion and uniqueness of hierarchy and polyarchy structures
• The generalized homogeneity assumption and the Condorcet jury theorem
• On the degree of generalizability of Condorcet jury theorem
• Optimal hiring strategy in auction-based crowdsourcing systems
• Symmetric and asymmetric committees
• Collective decision making in hierarchies

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