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Collective decision skill and decisive voting games

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Summary, in English

The paper discusses various representations of collective decisional skill which are useful in the evaluation of decision structures. The recursion formulas we give here and the use of the concepts of majority deficiency as well as majority and unanimity games present expedient approaches in analyzing collective competence. Using the simple majority system as benchmark, applications to certain hierarchic decision structures are presented. The resulting inequalities dealing with collective decisional skills of hierarchic systems are an improvement of previous published results.

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Pages

389-403

Publication/Series

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volume

10

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Probability Theory and Statistics

Keywords

  • collective decisional skill
  • decisive voting games
  • generalized decision
  • structure
  • hierarchy
  • majority function
  • majority deficiency
  • reliability

Status

Published