The costs of implementing the majority principle: The golden voting rule

DOI10.1007/S00199-006-0083-9MaRDI QIDQ868423zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eyal Baharad, Shmuel Nitzan

Publication date 5 March 2007

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-006-0083-9

zbMATH Keywords

Majority decisivenessMajority principleScoring rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Voting theory (91B12)

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