Weighted Majoritarian Rules for the Location of Multiple Public Facilities

Olivier Bochet (1) , Sidartha Gordon (2) , René Saran (3)

1 UNIBE - Universität Bern [Bern]
2 ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po)
3 Yale University [New Haven]

We consider collective decision problems given by a profile of single-peakedpreferences defined over the real line and a set of pure public facilities to be located on the line. In this context, Bochet and Gordon (2012) provide a large class of priority rules based on efficiency, object-population monotonicity and sovereignty. Each such rule is described by a fixed priority ordering among interest groups. We show that any priority rule which treats agents symmetrically - anonymity - , respects some form of coherence across collective decision problems - reinforcement - and only depends on peak information - peak-only -, is a weighted majoritarian rule. Each such rule defines priorities based on the relative size of the interest groups and specific weights attached to locations. We give an explicit account of the richness of this class of rules.

Keywords: Multiple Public Facilities; Priority Rules; Weighted Majori- tarian Rules; Object-Population Monotonicity; Sovereignty; Reinforcement; Anonymity.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Economics and Finance

Olivier Bochet, Sidartha Gordon, René Saran. Weighted Majoritarian Rules for the Location of Multiple Public Facilities. 2013. ⟨hal-03460749⟩