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Chapter 18: Q 5. (page 441)

True or false: The majority rule can fail to produce a single preferred outcome when there are more than two choices.

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The statement is true.

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Step 1. Definition

A decision rule that chooses alternatives with majority or more than half the votes is referred to as majority rule.

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Step 2. Explanation

Let there are four choices W, X, Y, Z. Now let us say that you preferred W to X and X to Y and Y to Z and lastly Z to A. so what you are going to choose, like you choose W because W is preferred to X, and you choose X as X is preferred to Y, and so on. So, this is going to be a circular and you choose what you prefer between the two givens. So, a single preferred outcome cannot be produced by majority rule when there are more than two choices.

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