Difference between revisions of "Shepsle, K. (1979), Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium in Multidimensional Voting Models"

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==Model==
 
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Consider a two-dimensional case.  any policy z_i is chare
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Consider a two-dimensional case.  any policy math[z_i] is chare

Revision as of 13:15, 14 May 2012

Paper's Motivation

McKelvey's Chaos Thm: In a multidimensional spacial settings, unless points are distributed in a rare way (like radially symmetric), there is no Condorcet winner, and whoever controls the order of voting can make any point the final outcome.

In response, the author considers voting on one 'attribute' or dimension at a time.

Model

Consider a two-dimensional case. any policy math[z_i] is chare