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Social Choice at the Boundary of Symmetry

This monograph offers a structural reconstruction of Social Choice Theory within a general framework of symbolic transformation systems, referred to as S-theory. Classical social choice is reinterpreted not as a failed attempt to define collective rationality, but as a boundary regime characterized by maximal symmetry, minimal expressiveness, and shallow procedural depth. Within this regime, the well-known impossibility theorems—Arrow, Condorcet-type cycles, and Gibbard–Satterthwaite—are shown to arise as emptiness results for over constrained transformation classes, rather than as normative paradoxes or computational limitations