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The socially acceptable scoring rule

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We say that an alternative is socially acceptable if the number of individuals that rank it among their most preferred half of the alternatives is at least as large as the number of individuals that rank it among the least preferred half. We show that there exists a unique scoring rule that always selects a subset of socially acceptable alternatives.

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  1. Flexible scoring rules are discussed in Brams and Fishburn (1978). For a formal definition see Baharad and Nitzan (2016).

  2. See Baharad and Nitzan (2005) for an axiomatization of this rule.

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  1. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Muhammad Mahajne & Oscar Volij

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Correspondence to Oscar Volij.

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We thank two anonymous referees for their helpful comments.

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Mahajne, M., Volij, O. The socially acceptable scoring rule. Soc Choice Welf 51, 223–233 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-018-1113-9

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