Strategy-proofness on restricted separable domains

Review of Economic Design volume 17, pages323–333(2013)Cite this article

Abstract

We study a problem in which a group of voters must decide which candidates are elected from a set of alternatives. The voters’ preferences on the combinations of elected candidates are represented by linear orderings. We propose a family of restrictions of the domain of separable preferences. These subdomains are generated from a partition that identifies the friends, enemies and unbiased candidates for each voter. We characterize the family of social choice functions that satisfy strategy-proofness and tops-onlyness properties on each of the subdomains. We find that these domain restrictions are not accompanied by an increase in the family of social choice functions satisfying the two properties.

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Notes

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    In a different context, Barberà et al. (2001) use the idea of friendship and enmity (without the possibility of being unbiased) in a dynamic model in which the current members of a club must choose which candidates are accepted for entry.

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    Given a set \(A\), we denote by \(2^A\) the set of all possible subsets of \(A\), including the empty set \(\phi \).

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    The reader is referred to Barberà (2011) for an extensive review of the literature.

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    We occasionally abuse the notation and write simply \(x\) instead of \(\{x\}\) when \(x\) is not \(\phi \). However, we always distinguish between \(\{\phi \}\) and \(\phi \) because they have different meanings, the first one is an element of \(2^A\) while the second one is not.

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    Obviously, we assume here that \(n\) is even.

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    Sakai (2012) develops a more structured framework to analyze NIMBY problems from an axiomatic point of view.

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    The sets \(C_x=\phi \) and \(C'_x=\{\phi \}\) have different interpretation. The first one has no elements, while the second one contains an element (the empty set). Thus, \(C_x\) vacuously satisfies the monotonicity condition to be a committee, but \(C'_x\) does not.

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    Penn et al. (2011) consider environments in which individuals may provide a preference in the universal domain and show that in these environments, any SCF that is coalitionally strategy-proof must be dictatorial.

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    Extended strategy-proofness. For each \(i\in N\), each \(R_{N}\in \mathcal U _{N}\), and each \(R_{i}^{\prime }\in \mathcal{D }^{V_{i}}, S(R_{i}^{\prime },R_{-i})\,R_{i}^{\prime }\,S(R_{i},R_{-i})\).

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  1. Departmento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, c/ Madrid, 126, 28903 , Getafe, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Martínez

  2. Departmento de Teoría Económica, Universidad de Málaga, 29013 , Malaga, Spain

    Bernardo Moreno

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We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Junta de Andalucía through grants SEJ-4941 and SEJ-5980 and Ministerio de Ciencia through grant ECO2011-29355.

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Martínez, R., Moreno, B. Strategy-proofness on restricted separable domains. Rev Econ Design 17, 323–333 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-013-0149-7

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Keywords

  • Preference aggregation
  • Strategy-proofness
  • Tops-onlyness
  • Voting by committees

JEL Classification

  • D63
  • D70