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Judgment aggregation and agenda manipulation

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When individual judgments ('yes' or 'no') on some propositions are aggregated into collective judgments, outcomes may be sensitive to the choice of propositions under consideration (the agenda). Such agenda-sensitivity opens the door to manipulation by agenda setters. I define three types of agenda-insensitivity ('basic', 'full', and 'focal') and for each type axiomatically characterize the aggregation procedures satisfying it. Two axioms turn out to be central for agenda-insensitivity: the familiar independence axiom, requiring propositionwise aggregation, and the axiom of implicit consensus preservation, requiring the respect of any (possibly implicit) consensus. As the paper's second contribution, I prove a new impossibility theorem whereby these two axioms imply dictatorial aggregation for almost all agendas.
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hal-01252817 , version 1 (21-04-2016)

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Franz Dietrich. Judgment aggregation and agenda manipulation. Games and Economic Behavior, 2016, 95, pp.113-136. ⟨10.1016/j.geb.2016.01.001⟩. ⟨hal-01252817⟩
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