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Judgment Aggregation: A Primer
Davide Grossi
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Gabriella Pigozzi
UniversitéParisDauphine
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ABSTRACT
Judgment aggregation is a mathematical theory of collective decision-making. It concerns the
methods whereby individual opinions about logically interconnected issues of interest can, or
cannot, be aggregated into one collective stance. Aggregation problems have traditionally been
of interest for disciplines like economics and the political sciences, as well as philosophy, where
judgmentaggregationitselforiginatesfrom,buthaverecentlycapturedtheattentionofdisciplines
likecomputerscience,artificialintelligenceandmulti-agentsystems.Judgmentaggregationhas
emerged in the last decade as a unifying paradigm for the formalization and understanding of
aggregationproblems.Still,nocomprehensivepresentationofthetheoryisavailabletodate.is
SynthesisLectureaimsatfillingthisgappresentingthekeymotivations,results,abstractionsand
techniquesunderpinningit.
KEYWORDS
judgmentaggregation,collectivedecision-making,logic,socialchoicetheory,com-
putationalsocialchoice,preferenceaggregation,votingparadoxes,aggregationrules,
impossibilityresults,manipulability,ultrafilters,opinionpooling,deliberation
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