Document Type
Discussion Paper
Publication Date
5-1-1990
CFDP Number
941
CFDP Pages
19
Abstract
Problems of social choice frequently take the following form. There are n voters and a set K = (1,2,…, k ) of objects. The voters must choose a subset of K . We define a class of voting schemes called voting by committees. The main result of the paper is a characterization of voting by committees, which is the class of all voting schemes that satisfy voter sovereignty and non-manipulability on the domain of separable preferences. This result is analogous to the literature on the Groves and Clarke scheme in that it characterizes all of the non-manipulable voting schemes on an important domain.
Recommended Citation
Barberà, Salvador; Sonnenschein, Hugo; and Zhou, Lin, "Voting by Committees" (1990). Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers. 1184.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-series/1184