Events / The Mathematical Justification for Dictatorship

The Mathematical Justification for Dictatorship

January 25, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

University of Pennsylvania DRL A6

Speaker: Anschel Schaffer-Cohen

Abstract:

This talk will present and prove the Muller-Satterthwaite and Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorems, which give a reasonable-seeming set of criteria for a voting system and then demonstrate that the only system meeting those criteria is a single-person dictatorship.