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Existence and construction of voting situations concordant with ranking patterns

2022/05/31 by Emilio De Santis, De Santis, Emilio, Fabio Spizzichino +1
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · #60E15 #91B12 #91B14 #Auction Theory and Applications #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #Game Theory and Applications #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Probability (math.PR) #math.CO #math.PR #msc:60E15 #msc:91B12 #msc:91B14

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2205.15679

24 pages

arxiv created 2022/05/31 · openalex publication_date 2022/05/31 · arxiv updated 2022/06/01 · openalex created_date 2022/06/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Referring to a standard context of voting theory, and to the classic notion of voting situation, here we show that it is possible to observe any arbitrary set of elections' outcomes, no matter how paradoxical it may appear. On this purpose we use results, presented in a recent paper of us, that hinge on the concept of ranking pattern concordant with a probability model for non-negative random variables and on a related role of special load-sharing models. Our results here will be obtained by suitably extending those therein, and by converting them into the context of voting.

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