Asan, GSanver, MR2024-07-182024-07-1820060165-1765https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2005.11.013https://hdl.handle.net/11411/7322Given a society confronting two alternatives, we show that the set of anonymous, neutral and Maskin monotonic aggregation rules coincides with the family of absolute qualified majority rules. We also explore the effect of incorporating Pareto optimality in our characterization. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessMajority RuleMaskin MonotonicityMajority-RuleArticle2-s2.0-3364638134010.1016/j.econlet.2005.11.0131832Q217991Q4WOS:000238003300005