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A Social Choice Lemma on Voting over Lotteries with Applications to a Class of Dynamic Games

Abstract

We prove a lemma characterizing majority preferences over lotteries on a subset of Euclidean space. Assuming voters have quadratic von Neumann-Morgenstern utility representations, and assuming existence of a majority undominated (or "core") point, the core voter is decisive: one lottery is majority-preferred to another if and only if this is the preference of the core voter. Several applications of this result to dynamic voting games are discussed.

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Support from the National Science Foundation, grant numbers SES-9975173 and SES-0213738, is gratefully acknowledged. This paper was completed after Jeff Banks's death. I am deeply indebted to him for his friendship and his collaboration on this and many other projects. Published as Banks, J.S., & Duggan, J. (2006). A social choice lemma on voting over lotteries with applications to a class of dynamic games. Social Choice and Welfare, 26(2), 285-304.

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