| Titre | Comment reconnaître la volonté générale | |
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| Auteur | Antoine Stoetzel | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1976, 17-1 | |
| Page | 3-11 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Antoine Stoetzel: How to Assert the Common Will.
The majority rule can be misleading when the number of candidates or issues offered to the choice of the voters exceed two. It may happen that the winner be actually the least liked ; it may even happen that the outcome remains undecisive, because the social preference happen to be non transitive. Condorcet was the first to call attention to this fact at the close of the XVIIIth Century. In 1951, Kenneth J. Arrow gave a mathematical demonstration, which is outlined here. This paper was read at the University of Beirut in April 1975 by the author, who was later killed in a plane accident Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1976_num_17_1_6878 |
