The Limits of Tolerance

Abstract

I propose a model of aggregation of intervals relevant to the study of legal standards of tolerance. Seven axioms: responsiveness, anonymity, continuity, strategyproofness, and three variants of neutrality are then used to prove several important results about a new class of aggregation methods called endpoint rules. The class of endpoint rules includes extreme tolerance (allowing anything permitted by anyone) and a form of majoritarianism (the median rule).

Figures (1)

• Figure 1: Endpoint Rules

Theorems & Definitions (16)

• Theorem 1
• Theorem 2
• Lemma 1
• Proposition 1
• Claim 1
• Theorem 3
• Lemma 2
• proof : Proof of Lemma \ref{['piphi']}
• proof : Proof of Theorem \ref{['mainthm']}
• proof : Proof of Theorem \ref{['thm2']}