For each description in the following table, identify the property of a desirable voting system it portrays. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives No Description Unanimity Transitivity Dictators If everyone prefers B to A, then B beats A. There is no person who always gets what he wants, despite everyone else's preferences If B beats A, and A beats C, then B beats C. The ranking between C and A does not depend on whether B is also available. Consider the following voting system:

For each description in the following table, identify the property of a desirable voting system it portrays. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives No Description Unanimity Transitivity Dictators If everyone prefers B to A, then B beats A. There is no person who always gets what he wants, despite everyone else's preferences If B beats A, and A beats C, then B beats C. The ranking between C and A does not depend on whether B is also available. Consider the following voting system:

Principles of Microeconomics

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Chapter22: Frontiers Of Microeconomics

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