The Idea That a Voting Scheme Cannot Be Devised That

question 255

Multiple Choice

The idea that a voting scheme cannot be devised that respects individual preferences and gives consistent, nonarbitrary results is known as

• A) the impossibility theorem.
• B) the independence of irrelevant alternatives.
• C) logrolling.
• D) Samuelson's theory.

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