The Trump revoltPub Date : 2020-06-16DOI: 10.7765/9781526153685.00006
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The Trump revoltPub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.4324/9780429490309-4
Antonio Merlo
{"title":"Voters","authors":"Antonio Merlo","doi":"10.4324/9780429490309-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429490309-4","url":null,"abstract":"That the resolution of a set of proposals by majority rule may result in outcomes with which a majority of voters disagree in a majority of cases seems first to have been noted by Anscombe (1976). The following example, due to Gorman (1978), illustrates this possibility: (1.1) Proposals 1 2 3 Voters /r L 1 yes yes no 2 /no no no 3 no yes yes 4 yes no yes | 5 lyes no yes.] I Each of the first three voters disagrees with the outcomes, based on simple majority rule, in a majority of cases, voter 1 with the outcomes on proposals 2 and 3, voter 2 with those on proposals 1 and 3, and voter 3 with those on proposals 1 and 2. One senses that such situations materialize when issues are decided by a number of 'close' votes. Thus it is natural to ask how substantial, on average, prevailing coalitions I must be in order to preclude such situations. We find that when prevailing coalitions comprise, on average at least three-fourths of those voting, the set of voters disagreeing with a majority of outcomes cannot comprise a majority. In particular, the rule requiring ratification of amendments to the U.S. Constitution by at least three-fourths of the states guarantees that the set of states whose legislatures have rejected a majority of the amendments thus adopted can never constitute a majority.","PeriodicalId":378537,"journal":{"name":"The Trump revolt","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128957185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}