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all four preferences are single-peaked. To formally prove this, consider the set of three outcomes {A, D, E}. Each of these outcomes is a worst outcome of some agent: A is worst for the red agent, D is worst for the blue agent, and E is worst for the green agent above. Therefore, no ordering on X can make the set of preferences single-peaked.
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The outcome space can also be thought as different policies in an ideological spectrum: policies from the Left vs policies from the Right; policies that are more liberal vs policies that are more conservative; policies that are pro free markets vs policies that are pro state intervention. Voters have
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For the blue preferences, it can be seen that the preference ranking spikes down for "D" and then spikes up for "E". This proves that the blue preferences are not single-peaked with respect to the ordering A<B<C<D<E, but it still does not prove that there is no other ordering with which
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The following graph shows a set of three preferences that are single-peaked over outcomes {A,B,C,D,E}. On the vertical axis, the number represents the preference ranking of the outcome, with 1 being most preferred. Two outcomes that are equally preferred have the same ranking.
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to purchase. The amount is a one-dimensional variable. Usually, each consumer decides on a certain quantity which is best for him or her, and if the actual quantity is more/less than that ideal quantity, the agent is then less satisfied.
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The ordering over the outcomes is A < B < C < D < E. The ideal outcome for the green agent is A, for the red it is B, for the blue it is C. For each agent, when we move away from his ideal outcome, the ranking decreases.
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as the address of an individual. Suppose a single bus stop has to be located on the street and every individual wishes to walk as little as possible to the stop. Individuals then have single-peaked preferences: individual
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It can also be verified that, for each triplet of outcomes, one of them is never ranked last - the one in the middle. E.g., in {A,B,C}, B is never ranked last; in {C,D,E}, D is never ranked last; etc.
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single-peaked preferences if they have an ideal balance between the two directions of the ideological spectrum and if they dislike policies the farther away they are from their ideal point.
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If each of the two preferences represented by the following two graphs is added to the three preferences above, then the resulting group of four preferences is not single-peaked:
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The green preferences are not formally single-peaked because they have two outcomes that are the most preferred: "B" and "C". Such preferences are sometimes called
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Single-peaked preferences are typical of one-dimensional domains. A typical example is when several consumers have to decide on the amount of
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Escoffier, Spanjaard and Tydrichova study the problem of recognizing preferences that are single-peaked on a general graph.
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Trick presents a polynomial-time algorithm for recognizing preferences that are single-peaked on a tree.
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and she dislikes other locations the farther they are to the west or the farther they are to the east.
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Ballester and Haeringer proved the following necessary condition for single-peaked preferences.
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For each agent, outcomes that are further from his or her best outcome are preferred less.
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over a set of possible outcomes if the outcomes can be ordered along a line such that:
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Single-peaked preferences have a number of interpretations for different applications.
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are different, but the ordering > of the outcomes must be the same for all agents.
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for selecting an outcome, which is to select the median quantity; this results in the
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Lackner and Peters study a class of preferences that are single-peaked on a circle.
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A simple application of ideological preferences is to think of the outcome space
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Mas-Colell, Andreu, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green (1995).
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Escoffier, Bruno; Spanjaard, Olivier; Tydrichová, Magdaléna (2020).
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Ballester, Miguel A.; Haeringer, Guillaume (2010-07-15).
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be the set of agents. The preference-relation of agent
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Baumol, William J.; Arrow, Kenneth J. (1952-01-01).
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Index

preference relations
public good
truthful mechanism
median voter theorem
strong monotonicity
Duncan Black
Kenneth Arrow


decision problem
Single-parameter mechanism
Star-shaped preferences
"On the Rationale of Group Decision-making"
doi
10.1086/256633
ISSN
0022-3808
S2CID
153953456
"Social Choice and Individual Values"
doi
10.2307/1907815
hdl
2027/inu.30000082056718
ISSN
0012-9682
JSTOR
1907815
"A characterization of the single-peaked domain"
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