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EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0590 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Social choice theory · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem establishes that every non-dictatorial voting rule with at least three possible outcomes is manipulable: some voter can sometimes gain by misreporting preferences.”

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The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 (Amartya Sen)

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