Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Democracy is a system in which the majority rules.
2. Condorcet’s paradox points out that individual rationality is sufficient to ensure group rationality.
3. Condorcet’s paradox makes it clear that restricting group decision making to sets of rational individuals is no guarantee that the group as a whole will exhibit rational tendencies.
4. Actors whose preference orderings are complete, and transitive are said to be rational.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False

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