The proposition that the outcome of a majority vote is likely to represent the preferences of the voter who is in the political middle is called
A)the mean (or average)voter theorem.
B)the voting paradox.
C)the Arrow impossibility theorem.
D)the median voter theorem.

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The proposition that the outcome of a majority vote is likely to represent the preferences of the voter who is in the political middle is called the median voter theorem. This means that the winning candidate will generally be the one who can appeal to the greatest number of voters in the political center, rather than the extremes. Therefore, the correct answer is D, the median voter theorem.

The Proposition That the Outcome of a Majority Vote Is