McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem
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McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem
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The McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem is a result in social choice theory. It states that if preferences are defined over a multidimensional policy space, then majority rule is in general unstable: there is no Condorcet winner. Furthermore, any point in the space can be reached from any other point by a sequence of majority votes. The theorem can be thought of as showing that Arrow's impossibility theorem holds when preferences are restricted to be concave in R n. The median voter theorem shows t
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Result in social choice theory
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2015-07-16T22:53:04Z
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2024-09-08T01:12:43Z
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