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All the results pertaining to the performance of the voting procedures with respect to various criteria discussed above take their point of departure from the assumption that individuals have a preference relation over the set of alternatives. There certainly is considerable plausibility in this assumption for a wide class of choice situations. But often one could well ask whether this assumption contains all the relevant information about individual tastes, wishes etc. that would seem to be called for.
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Nurmi, H. (1987). Social Choice Methods Based on More Detailed Information about Individual Preferences. In: Comparing Voting Systems. Theory and Decision Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3985-1_10
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