Document de travail

The Condorcet Principle Implies the Proxy Voting Paradox

Michel Le Breton

Résumé

In this note, we formulate a condition describing the vulnerability of a social choice function to a specific kind of strategic behavior and show that two well known classes of choice functions suffer from it.

Mots-clés

Condorcet; Departing Voter Paradox; Backward Induction;

Codes JEL

  • D71: Social Choice • Clubs • Committees • Associations
  • D72: Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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Publié dans

IAST working paper, n° 16-80, février 2016