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An Epistemic Theory of Democracy (Hardcover)
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An Epistemic Theory of Democracy (Hardcover)
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Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency
to track the truth, at least under certain idealized assumptions.
That basic result has been known since 1785, when Condorcet
published his famous jury theorem. But that theorem has typically
been dismissed as little more than a mathematical curiosity, with
assumptions too restrictive for it to apply to the real world. In
An Epistemic Theory of Democracy, Goodin and Spiekermann propose
different ways of interpreting voter independence and competence to
make jury theorems more generally applicable. They go on to assess
a wide range of familiar political practices and alternative
institutional arrangements, to determine what constellation of them
might most fully exploit the truth-tracking potential of
majoritarian democracy. The book closes with a discussion of how
epistemic democracy might be undermined, using as case studies the
Trump and Brexit campaigns.
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