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In this chapter the main ideas underlying Condorcet's Conjecture and Arrow's Theorem are presented and some first applications to social sciences are discussed. The mathematical results are presented in an informal way to make the discussion accessible to the layman.
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dell’Isola, F. (2019). A Dictator Must Always Exist. In: Big-(Wo)men, Tyrants, Chiefs, Dictators, Emperors and Presidents. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9479-9_1
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