AGENDAS AND SINCERITY: A SECOND RESPONSE TO SCHWARTZ

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2010-08-27

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Miller, N.R. Agendas and sincerity: a second response to Schwartz. Public Choice 145, 575–579 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-010-9704-8

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An Ordeshook-Schwartz agenda tree requires a voting theorist to assign a unique “ostensive alternative” to each node, but under some non-pairwise agendas there is no evident principle by which to do this. Therefore Ordeshook-Schwartz sincere voting is not clearly defined under all types of agendas. Farquharson-style agenda trees sidestep this problem and allow one or more definitions of sincere voting under every type of agenda.