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Dictatorship versus manipulability

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    Identifier:  PC:3411
    Authors:  Tasnádi, Attila; Moskalenko, Anna; Bednay, Dezsö
    Abstract:
    The Gibbard–Satterthwaite (1973/75) theorem roughly states that we have to accept dictatorship or manipulability in case of at least three alternatives. A large strand of the literature estimates the degree of manipulability of social choice functions (e.g. Aleskerov and Kurbanov, 1999, Favardin et al., 2002, and Aleskerov et al., 2012), most of them employing the Nitzan-Kelly index of manipulability. We take a different approach and introduce a non-dictatorship index based on our recent work (Bednay et al., 2017), where we have analysed social choice functions based on their distances to the dictatorial rules. By employing computer simulations, we investigate the relationship between the manipulability and nondictatorship indices of some prominent social choice functions, putting them into a common framework. Keywords: Voting rules, dictatorship, manipulability, manipulability index, dictatorship index. JEL Classification Number: D71.
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    Publisher: Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública
    Date: 2018
    Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/351579
    Departament/Institute: Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia
    Language: eng
    Author: Tasnádi, Attila, Moskalenko, Anna, Bednay, Dezsö
    Relation: Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2018-23
    Source: RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)
    Format: 11 p.