The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review

@article{List2011TheTO,
  title={The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review},
  author={Christian List},
  journal={Synthese},
  year={2011},
  volume={187},
  pages={179-207}
}
  • C. List
  • Published 1 July 2012
  • Economics
  • Synthese
This paper provides an introductory review of the theory of judgment aggregation. It introduces the paradoxes of majority voting that originally motivated the field, explains several key results on the impossibility of propositionwise judgment aggregation, presents a pedagogical proof of one of those results, discusses escape routes from the impossibility and relates judgment aggregation to some other salient aggregation problems, such as preference aggregation, abstract aggregation and… 
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