Question

Voters are making a choice to spend money on three projects: a dam, a school, or a road. In the choice between the dam and the school, the majority favors the school. In a choice between a dam and a road, the majority favors a dam. In a choice between a road and a school, the majority favors a road. These rankings indicate that majority voting may:

a. Result in economically efficient outcomes because of rent-seeking behavior
b. Reflect irrational preferences
c. Produce inconsistent choices
d. Lead to consistent choices in spite of irrational community preferences

Answer 1

c. Produce inconsistent choices

Step-by-step explanation:

We can try to understand this in a mathematical way. If A is higher than B, and B is higher than C, then A should be higher than C. In other words, the school should have higher preference than the dam, and the dam has higher preference than the road, then the school should have higher preference than the road.

Since this is not the result here, we must conclude that the choices are inconsistent.