On A Proportionality Analysis of Syllogistic Private Reasoning
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 146, Heft 1-2, S. 129-138
ISSN: 1573-0964
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In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 146, Heft 1-2, S. 129-138
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 84, Heft 1, S. 139-152
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 439-476
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 125-169
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 131-153
ISSN: 1460-3667
It is well known that when all voters in an electorate have preferences consistent with a single underlying dimension, then the electorate's aggregate preferences must be transitive. However, analyses of historical elections suggest that voters frequently view political alternatives (parties and candidates) arrayed along not one, but two principal dimensions. Building on earlier work by Feld and Grofman, we develop a simple geometric method to represent necessary and sufficient conditions for transitive majority decisions in two-dimensional policy space. This method provides an intuition as to why transitivity in the two-dimensional case is virtually guaranteed, given realistic positioning by parties and candidates. We illustrate and support our conclusions by analyzing data on the spatial distributions of voters and parties in recent French and British elections.
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 131-154
ISSN: 0951-6298
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 30, Heft 3-4, S. 429-460
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 645
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 25, Heft 1-2, S. 219-253
ISSN: 1573-0964