This is a book about liberal democratic values and their
implications for the design of political institutions. Its
distinctive feature is the use of some simple mathematical
techniques (known as social choice theory) to clarify and defend a
rather complex utilitarian conception of the liberal democratic
'way of life' based on John Stuart Mill's work. More specifically,
the text focuses on three well-known 'social choice paradoxes'
which are commonly held to destroy any possibility of an ideal
harmony among liberal democratic values; and draws upon suggestions
implicit in Mill's writings to develop an ethically appealing
liberal democratic social choice framework in which the
aforementioned paradoxes no longer cause concern. The revised
framework is a rather complex version of utilitarianism and should
be of special interest to welfare economists, social choice
theorists, democratic political theorists and philosophers
concerned with utilitarian ethics.
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