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On strategy-proofness and symmetric single-peakedness

Article
Author/s: 
Jordi Massóa and Inés Moreno de Barreda
Games and Economic Behavior
Issue number: 
72
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Year: 
2011
Journal pages: 
467–484
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We characterize the class of strategy-proof social choice functions on the domain of symmetric single-peaked preferences. This class is strictly larger than the set of generalized median voter schemes (the class of strategy-proof and tops-only social choice functions on the domain of single-peaked preferences characterized by Moulin, 1980) since, under the domain of symmetric single-peaked preferences, generalized median voter schemes can be disturbed by discontinuity points and remain strategy-proof on the smaller domain. Our result identifies the specific nature of these discontinuities which allow to design non-onto social choice functions to deal with feasibility constraints.

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