dictatoriality
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dictatorial + -ity.
Noun
[edit]dictatoriality (uncountable)
- Dictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.
- 1971, James Provinzano, Chicano Migrant Farm Workers in a Rural Wisconsin County:
- In early life the father is gentle and loving; later on there is an abrupt change to brusqueness and dictatoriality when the child reaches puberty.
- 1993, Charles K. Rowley, Social Choice Theory: The aggregation of preferences:
- In this section I show that dictatoriality of the derived voting procedure implies dictatoriality of the original social welfare function. This establishes for the case of strict social welfare functions a new proof of Arrow's general possibility theorem […]