Arrow's theorem teaches us about a surprisingly hard limit to what voting procedures can achieve. How does the proof of the theorem actually work?
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Arrow's theorem teaches us about a surprisingly hard limit to what voting procedures can achieve. How does the proof of the theorem actually work?
... by using well defined mathematical ideas, it is possible to generalise over large numbers of different possible voting techniques.
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