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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Lund, Sweden
    Bengt Hansson

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I am grateful to Robert P. Parks who pointed out some mistakes in the 1971 version of this paper (see Postscript) and who also helped me to correct them.

Editor's Note: This paper was originally circulated rather widely as “The Existence of Group Preference Functions,” Working Paper No. 3, Mattias Fremling Society, 1972.

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Hansson, B. The existence of group preference functions.Public Choice 28, 89–98 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01718460

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