Only dictators can make unanimous decisions, new study reveals.
The article discusses impossibility theorems for preference correspondences based on a new concept called monotonicity. Monotonicity means that if preferences change to favor an outcome, that outcome will still be chosen in the new situation. Strong monotonicity goes further, requiring that the outcome at the new situation is a subset of the outcome at the old situation. The researchers found that only dictatorial preference correspondences are unanimous and strongly monotone.