Ranking judgments in Arrow's setting

Abstract

In this paper, I investigate the relationship between preference and judgment aggregation, using the notion of ranking judgment introduced in List and Pettit (Synthese 140(1-2):207-235, 2004). Ranking judgments were introduced in order to state the logical connections between the impossibility theorem of aggregating sets of judgments proved in List and Pettit (Economics and Philosophy 18:89-110, 2002) and Arrow's theorem (Arrow, Social choice and individual values, 1963). I present a proof of the theorem concerning ranking judgments as a corollary of Arrow's theorem, extending the translation between preferences and judgments defined in List and Pettit (Synthese 140(1-2):207-235, 2004) to the conditions on the aggregation procedure. © 2009 The Author(s).