Sequential voting rules and multiple elections paradoxes

Multiple election paradoxes arise when voting separately on each issue from a set of related issues results in an obviously undesirable outcome. Several authors have argued that a sufficient condition for avoiding multiple election paradoxes is the assumption that voters have separable preferences. We show that this extremely demanding restriction can be relaxed into the much more reasonable one: there exists a linear order x1 > ... > xp on the set of issues such that

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: TARK
• Authors: Lirong Xia, Jérôme Lang, Mingsheng Ying
• Keywords: Multiple Election Paradoxes, Separable Preferences, TARK 2007, Undesirable Outcome