It all depends on independence
Eckert D, Herzberg F (2009) Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics; 412.
Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld.
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Eckert, Daniel;
Herzberg, Frederik
Abstract / Bemerkung
Eliaz (2004) has established a "meta-theorem" for preference aggregation which implies both Arrow's Theorem (1963) and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem (1973, 1975). This theorem shows that the driving force behind impossibility theorems in preference aggregation is the mutual exclusiveness of Pareto optimality, individual responsiveness (preference reversal) and non-dictatorship.
Recent work on judgment aggregation has obtained important generalizations of both Arrow's Theorem (List and Pettit 2003, Dietrich and List 2007a) and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem (Dietrich and List 2007b).
One might ask, therefore, whether the impossibility results in judgment aggregation can be unified into a single theorem, a meta-theorem which entails the judgment-aggregation analogues of both Arrow's Theorem and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem. For this purpose, we study strong monotonicity properties (among them non-manipulability) and their mutual logical dependences. It turns out that all of these monotonicity concepts are equivalent for independent judgment aggregators, and the strongest monotonicity concept, individual responsiveness, implies independence. We prove the following meta-theorem: Every systematic non-trivial judgment aggregator is oligarchic in general and even dictatorial if the collective judgment set is complete. However, systematicity is equivalent to independence for blocked agendas. Hence, as a corollary, we obtain that every independent (in particular, every individually responsive) non-trivial judgment aggregator is oligarchic.
This result is a mild generalization of a similar theorem of Dietrich and List (2008), obtained by very different methods. Whilst Eliaz (2004) and Dietrich and List (2008) use sophisticated combinatorial and logical arguments to prove their results, we utilize the filter method (cf. e.g. Dietrich and Mongin, unpublished) and obtain a much simpler and more intuitive derivation of our meta-theorem.
Stichworte
Non-manipulability;
Partial rationality;
Impossibility results;
Oligarchy;
Monotonicity axiom;
Independence axiom;
Judgment aggregation
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Serientitel
Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics
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412
ISSN
0931-6558
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2316266
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Eckert D, Herzberg F. It all depends on independence. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics. Vol 412. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2009.
Eckert, D., & Herzberg, F. (2009). It all depends on independence (Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, 412). Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld.
Eckert, Daniel, and Herzberg, Frederik. 2009. It all depends on independence. Vol. 412. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld.
Eckert, D., and Herzberg, F. (2009). It all depends on independence. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, 412, Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld.
Eckert, D., & Herzberg, F., 2009. It all depends on independence, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, no.412, Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld.
D. Eckert and F. Herzberg, It all depends on independence, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 412, Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld, 2009.
Eckert, D., Herzberg, F.: It all depends on independence. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, 412. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld (2009).
Eckert, Daniel, and Herzberg, Frederik. It all depends on independence. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld, 2009. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics. 412.
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