voting paradox: The voting paradox: is the analytical result that democratic choices will be inconsistent unless the preferences of sets of individuals share uniform transitivity.
Example: Lynn, Chris, and Morgan cannot agree on a Thanksgiving meal that does not leave someone eating their least favorite entrée. [Note: Though often called Arrow’s paradox after Kenneth Arrow (1921- ), who won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972, this problem was first described in the writings of the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794).] |
Rank |
Lynn |
Chris |
Morgan |
1 |
turkey |
ham |
tofu |
2 |
ham |
tofu |
turkey |
3 |
tofu |
turkey |
ham |
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