Browsing by Subject "Egalitarianism"

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Duality, area-considerations, and the Kalai–Smorodinsky solution
(Elsevier, 2017) Karagözoğlu, E.; Rachmilevitch, S.
We introduce a new solution concept for 2-person bargaining problems, which can be considered as the dual of the Equal-Area solution (EA) (see Anbarcı and Bigelow (1994)). Hence, we call it the Dual Equal-Area solution (DEA). We show that the point selected by the Kalai–Smorodinsky solution (see Kalai and Smorodinsky (1975)) lies in between those that are selected by EA and DEA. We formulate an axiom–area-based fairness–and offer three characterizations of the Kalai–Smorodinsky solution in which this axiom plays a central role. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
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Egalitarianism under earmark constraints
(Elsevier, 2013) Bochet, O.; İlkılıç, R.; Moulin, H.
Agents with single-peaked preferences share a resource coming from different suppliers; each agent is connected to only a subset of suppliers. Examples include workload balancing, sharing earmarked funds, and rationing utilities after a storm. Unlike in the one supplier model, in a Pareto optimal allocation agents who get more than their peak from underdemanded suppliers, coexist with agents who get less from overdemanded suppliers. Our Egalitarian solution is the Lorenz dominant Pareto optimal allocation. It treats agents with equal demands as equally as the connectivity constraints allow. Together, Strategyproofness, Pareto Optimality, and Equal Treatment of Equals, characterize our solution.
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Iterated egalitarian compromise solution to bargaining problems and midpoint domination
(Elsevier B.V., 2018) Karagözoğlu, Emin; Tok, Elif Özcan
We introduce a new solution for two-person bargaining problems: the iterated egalitarian compromise solution. It is defined by using two prominent bargaining solutions, the egalitarian solution (Kalai, 1977) and the equal-loss solution (Chun, 1988), in an iterative fashion. While neither of these two solutions satisfy midpoint domination - an appealing normative property - we show that the iterated egalitarian compromise solution does so.
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Kazakh intelligentsia and the quest for egalitarianism, 1917-1927
(2021-05) Tustikbay, Nurzhan
Within its multiethnic empire, Tsarist Russia institutionalized the inequality between Russians and non-Orthodox, non-Russian peoples. At the beginning of the 20th century, the country was undergoing radical political transformations that included the participation of actors from the borderlands. By bringing to the fore the voice from the periphery, this thesis examines the political history of making Soviet Kazakhstan between 1917 and 1927 from the perspective of the local Kazakh politicians. The central question is why Kazakh intellectuals engaged with the Soviet project. Based on the documents of the local elite, the main argument is that the Kazakh political establishment strived to achieve an egalitarian position within Russia, which became an essential determinant for their engagement with the Soviet project. Specifically, the struggle for equality occurred in three dimensions. Firstly, the intelligentsia strove to achieve equal rights for the indigenous population and equal representation within the multiethnic state. This became the determining factor in their acceptance of the Soviet power. The second dimension was an effort to overcome the Tsarist legacy – that is, to eliminate the historical inequality between dominant and oppressed nations and thereby ensure actual equality. The last dimension focuses on Kazakh statesmen’s ideas to transform the Kazakh society in conformity with egalitarian principles. Specifically, the emphasis lies in the spread of education and class restructuring of society, which corresponded to the Soviet project. This latter dimension would also challenge the Central Party's interpretation in the mid-1920s that the local statesmen were either a conservative or nationalist force.