Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127114 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 899
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
This paper generalizes the results in Aswal et al. (2003) on dictatorial domains. This is done in two ways. In the first, the notion of connections between pairs of alternatives in Aswal et al. (2003) is weakened to weak connectedness. This notion requires the specification of four preference orderings for every alternative pair. Domains that are linked in the sense of Aswal et al. (2003) with weak connectedness replacing connectedness, are shown to be dictatorial. In the second, the notion of connections for alternative pairs is strengthened relative to its counterpart in Aswal et al. (2003). However, a domain is shown to be dictatorial if the induced graph is merely connected rather than linked. This result generalizes the result in Sato (2010) on circular domains.
Subjects: 
Social choice functions
Strategy-proofness
Dictatorial Domains
Gibbard- Satterthwaite theorem
JEL: 
D71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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