Traditional social choice asks:
How can many individual preferences be aggregated into one social decision?
My current question:
Under what conditions does the aggregation process itself become an autonomous system with dynamics that no individual intended?
In other words:
Arrow: Is there a logically satisfactory voting rule?
Sen: How should freedom, rights, and welfare be incorporated into collective decisions?
Suzumura: How should procedural justice and rationality be understood in social choice?
My question: Once a collective decision mechanism exists, how does it evolve into a self-maintaining, potentially self-destructive egregore?