Self-selective social choice functions

dc.citation.epage149en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage129en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber31en_US
dc.contributor.authorKoray, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSlinko, A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T10:09:03Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T10:09:03Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Economicsen_US
dc.description.abstractIt is not uncommon that a society facing a choice problem has also to choose the choice rule itself. In such situations, when information about voters' preferences is complete, the voters' preferences on alternatives induce voters' preferences over the set of available voting rules. Such a setting immediately gives rise to a natural question concerning consistency between these two levels of choice. If a choice rule employed to resolve the society's original choice problem does not choose itself, when it is also used for choosing the choice rule, then this phenomenon can be regarded as inconsistency of this choice rule as it rejects itself according to its own rationale. Koray (Econometrica 68: 981-995, 2000) proved that the only neutral, unanimous universally self-selective social choice functions are the dictatorial ones. Here we introduce to our society a constitution, which rules out inefficient social choice rules. When inefficient social choice rules become unavailable for comparison, the property of self-selectivity becomes more interesting and we show that some non-trivial self-selective social choice functions do exist. Under certain assumptions on the constitution we describe all of them. © 2007 Springer-Verlag.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00355-007-0276-6en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1432-217X
dc.identifier.issn0176-1714
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/23111
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00355-007-0276-6en_US
dc.source.titleSocial Choice and Welfareen_US
dc.titleSelf-selective social choice functionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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