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Chapter 22, Problem 5QR
To determine
The preference forMedian voter theorem.
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Explain why majority rule respects the preferencesof the median voter rather than those of the averagevoter.
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Arrow's impossibility theorem states that under certain assumptions about preferences, no voting system exists that satisfies all of the following properties:
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