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The Continuous Representation of a Social Preference Ordering

Econometrica 1971 39(3), 593
[It is shown that single-peaked, continuous utility functions do not, in general,aggregate in majority voting to a continuous social utility function. Conditions on individual preference orderings to guarantee a continuous social utility function are presented for a simple case.]