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Arrow's Possibility Theorem for one-dimensional single-peaked preferences
Authors:Lars Ehlers  Ton Storcken  
Institution:aDépartement de Sciences Économiques and CIREQ, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, Succ. Centre Ville, Montréal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada;bDepartment of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Abstract:In one-dimensional environments with single-peaked preferences we consider social welfare functions satisfying Arrow's requirements, i.e. weak Pareto and independence of irrelevant alternatives. When the policy space is a one-dimensional continuum such a welfare function is determined by a collection of 2N strictly quasi-concave preferences and a tie-breaking rule. As a corollary we obtain that when the number of voters is odd, simple majority voting is transitive if and only if each voter's preference is strictly quasi-concave.
Keywords:Arrovian social choice  One-dimensional continuum  Single-peaked preferences
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