Voting by Committees under Constraints

• Authors: Salvador Barberà, Jordi Massó and Alejandro Neme
• BSE Working Paper: 7 | January 2005
• Keywords: voting, strategy-proofness, additive and separable preferences
• JEL codes: D7

We consider social choice problems where a society must choose a subset from a set of objects. Specifically, we characterize the families of strategy-proof voting procedures when not all possible subsets of objects are feasible, and voters’ preferences are separable or additively representable.