Deliberating about voting dimensions
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It has been claimed that deliberation is capable of overcoming social choice theory impossibility results, by bringing about singlepeakedness. Our aim is to better understand the relationship between single-peakedness and collective justifications of preferences.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013