Voting in Agreeable Societies

Abstract

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. —Benjamin Disraeli [1, p. 29] 1. INTRODUCTION. When is agreement possible? An important aspect of group decision-making is the question of how a group makes a choice when individual pref-erences may differ. Clearly, when making a single group choice, people cannot all have their “ideal ” preferences, i.e., the options that they most desire, if those ideal preferences are different. However, for the sake of agreement, people may be willing