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Published February 1971 | public
Journal Article

A Welfare Function Using "Relative Intensity" of Preference

Abstract

Two separate problems appear to be associated with attempts to formulate voting processes or social welfare functions that incorporate "intensity" of preference. The first is that of identifying a measure for intensity of preference. The second problem is that of incorporating the measure into a voting process. In this paper the former problem is ignored. It is assumed that a measure of "relative intensity" has been chosen and that this measure has the properties of the positive real numbers.

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© 1971 Oxford University Press. This paper was presented at the conference on the Mathematical Theory of Committees and Elections held at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, June 1968.

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