L2 NEG

Commitment

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Communication

• persuasive if you can seem like you listen
• more information … less deals
  • harder to do positional bargainingtodo check this

Group choices

• aggregate group preferences
• people don’t agree
• inconsistent people are money pumps
  • consulting companies use the inconsistencies to sell their stuff
  • enabled by a group of people deciding
  • Condercet Paradox
• groups don’t have to be consistent

Voting

• arrows impossibility theorem

  • no voting system can ever be perfect

• plurality voting

  • first pick
  • winner: highest vote count

• borda voting

  • full ranking of preferences
    • first pick: score n-1, last pick: score 0
  • winner: preference with highest score

• approval voting

  • subset of “acceptable choices”
  • winner: preference acceptable to most

• veto voting

  • negative of approval voting
    • anti-vote
  • winner: preference not acceptable to least

todo strategic non-truthful voting

• put your nemesis at the beginning, then your actual preference at the last point
  • agendas matter

Trembling Hand

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