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by ClayShentrup 4076 days ago
> Arrow's theorem concerns the situation where your election procedure needs to deliver (not just a single winner, but) a ranking of all the candidates.

Well, any social welfare function that can pick a single winner can also be used to form a complete ordering, by repeating the process with the previous winner eliminated. So any social welfare function is a social ordering function.