Collective choice in Aristotle

dc.contributor.authorMiroiu, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorPartenie, Cătălin
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-29T09:58:09Z
dc.date.available2024-11-29T09:58:09Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionThe authors Adrian Miroiu and Cătălin Partenie are affiliated to SNSPA, Faculty of Political Science. The article is available on Springer Link website at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-019-09279-1
dc.description.abstractIn his Politics VI 3, 1318a–b, Aristotle discusses constitutional procedures for achieving justice in a society where its classes have different views on it. He ana- lyzes the case of a society consisting in two groups, the poor and the rich, each hold- ing a specific understanding of justice (democratic or oligarchic). In this paper we give, first, a non-formal summary of this section of Politics. Then we approach it in the framework of social choice theory and argue that a social rule for selecting between alternatives may be extracted from it. As Aristotle argued, this rule is con- sistent with the views on justice and equality of the supporters of both democracy and oligarchy. Finally, we study its properties, as well as some extensions of it when multiple classes are allowed or more than two alternatives are present.
dc.identifier.citationMiroiu, A. & Partenie, C. (2019). Collective choice in Aristotle. Constitutional Political Economy, 30, 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-019-09279-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-019-09279-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://debdfdsi.snspa.ro/handle/123456789/1073
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.subjectDemocracy
dc.subjectOligarchy
dc.subjectMajority
dc.subjectWeighted majority
dc.subjectSocial choice
dc.titleCollective choice in Aristotle
dc.typeArticle

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