Dictatorship mechanism
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In social choice theory, a dictatorship mechanism is a degenerate voting rule or mechanism where the result depends on one person's. A serial dictatorship is similar, but also designates a series of "backup dictators", who break ties in the original dictator's choices when the dictator is indifferent.