Collective decision making in hierarchies

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-244

  Berg, Sven ^a   Paroush, Jacob ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Collective decision making; Hierarchies; Majority functions; Multi tier voting systems; Recursion relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038076222     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4896(97)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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