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EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0588 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Social choice theory · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“Arrow proved that, with more than two alternatives, no rule for aggregating individual rankings into a complete and transitive social ranking can satisfy universal domain, weak Pareto, independence of irrelevant alternatives and non-dictatorship at once.”

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972 (John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow)

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