| Title |
Integer Programming and Arrovian Social
Welfare Functions |
| Author(s) |
Teo Chung-Piaw |
| Abstract |
We formulate the problem of deciding which preference
domains admit a non-dictatorial Arrovian Social Welfare Function
as one of verifying the feasibility of an integer linear program.
Many of the known results about the presence or absence of Arrovian
Social Welfare Functions, impossibility theorems in Social Choice
theory, and properties of majority rules etc., can be derived
in a simple and unified way from this integer program. We also
characterize those preference domains that admit a non-dictatorial,
neutral Arrovian Soical Welfare function and a polyhedral characterization
of Arrovian Social Welfare Functions on single-peaked domains.
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