TY - JOUR AU - Santos García, Gustavo AU - Alcantud, José Carlos R. PY - 2025 SN - 0165-1765 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/163896 AB - [EN] This paper defines approbatory social welfare functions. They are the natural counterpart of Arrovian social welfare functions when the expression of preferences is accompanied by a common choice of “approved” alternatives in a consistent manner.... LA - eng PB - Elsevier KW - Ranking KW - Approval KW - Social welfare function KW - Voting KW - Dictatorship TI - A characterization of pairwise dictatorial approbatory social welfare functions DO - 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112217 T2 - Economics Letters VL - 248 ER -