Do Individuals Value Distributional Fairness? How Inequality Affects Majority Decisions
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DOI: 10.1007/s11109-017-9424-6
Abstract: The so-called chaos theorems imply that, under most preference configurations, majority voting in n-dimensional policy spaces is theoretically unrestricted. Empirical research, however, shows an apparent stability of democratic decisions. Recent theoretical developments have emphasized social… read more here.
Keywords: value distributional; distributional fairness; majority; majority decisions ... See more keywords
Prosociality in Majority Decisions: A Laboratory Experiment on the Robustness of the Uncovered Set
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DOI: 10.1017/xps.2020.43
Abstract: Abstract Social choice theory demonstrates that majority rule is generically indeterminate. However, from an empirical perspective, large and arbitrary policy shifts are rare events in politics. The uncovered set (UCS) is the dominant preference-based explanation… read more here.
Keywords: majority rule; prosociality majority; majority decisions; uncovered set ... See more keywords