| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29389 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29389 |
| Interpreting the Will of the People: A Positive Analysis of Ordinal Preference Aggregation | |
| Sandro Ambuehl; B. Douglas Bernheim | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-10-25 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Collective decision making requires preference aggregation even if no ideal aggregation method exists (Arrow, 1950). We investigate how individuals think groups should aggregate members' ordinal preferences—that is, how they interpret "the will of the people." Our experiment elicits revealed attitudes toward ordinal preference aggregation and classifies subjects according to the rules they implicitly deploy. Majoritarianism is rare while rules that promote compromise are common. People evaluate relative sacrifice by inferring cardinal utility from ordinal ranks. Cluster analysis reveals that our classification encompasses all important aggregation rules. Aggregation methods exhibit stability across domains and across countries with divergent traditions. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29389 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587063 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sandro Ambuehl,B. Douglas Bernheim. Interpreting the Will of the People: A Positive Analysis of Ordinal Preference Aggregation. 2021. |
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| w29389.pdf（817KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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