In this accessible new book, Iain McLean explores the impact of
information technology on democracy. Combining democratic theory,
social choice theory and description of new technology at work in
Europe and the USA, McLean explores democracy as it is and as it
could be. The author begins in ancient Athens and moves through
Pliny, Rousseau, Madison and J S Mill to modern representatives and
direct democracy. Introducing the theory of social choice, he
argues that democracy is about procedures, not results, and sets
out some criteria for fair aggregation of individuals' preferences
to society's. Exploring the impact of new technology on these
procedures, McLean shows how it can save time, and increase
accuracy and accessibility, but also how it can lead to
manipulation and come up against Arrow's, Gibbards' and McKelvey's
impossibility theorems.
In conclusion, McLean asks whether new technology widens or
narrows our democratic horizons, and points to the technical and
logical boundaries of democracy. "Democracy and New Technology"
will be of great interest to students and researchers in politics,
sociology, and media and communications studies. It is one of very
few books to explain social choice theory in totally non-technical
language and to explore what it means for democracy.
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