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Democratic Reason - Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Paperback)
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Democratic Reason - Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Paperback)
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Individual decision making can often be wrong due to
misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on
the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason,
Helene Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the
superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case
for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of
democratic decision making form a cognitive system that ensures
that decisions taken by the many are more likely to be right than
decisions taken by the few. Democracy as a form of government is
therefore valuable not only because it is legitimate and just, but
also because it is smart. Landemore considers how the argument
plays out with respect to two main mechanisms of democratic
politics: inclusive deliberation and majority rule. In deliberative
settings, the truth-tracking properties of deliberation are
enhanced more by inclusiveness than by individual competence.
Landemore explores this idea in the contexts of representative
democracy and the selection of representatives. She also discusses
several models for the "wisdom of crowds" channeled by majority
rule, examining the trade-offs between inclusiveness and individual
competence in voting. When inclusive deliberation and majority rule
are combined, they beat less inclusive methods, in which one person
or a small group decide. Democratic Reason thus establishes the
superiority of democracy as a way of making decisions for the
common good.
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