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The limits of epistemic democracy
Social Choice and Welfare, 2006zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Democracy and Truth: A Contingent Defense of Epistemic Democracy
Critical Review, 2017ABSTRACTContrary to what some critics of epistemic democracy claim, the association between democracy and truth does not necessarily make the former inhospitable to conflict, contestation, and pluralism. With the help of John Stuart Mill and William James, truth can be interpreted so as to make it compatible with a democratic politics that appreciates ...
Gustavo Hessmann Dalaqua
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Disagreement and Epistemic Arguments for Democracy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012Recent accounts of epistemic democracy aim to show that in some qualified sense, democratic institutions have a tendency to produce reasonable outcomes. Epistemic democrats aim to offer such accounts without presupposing any narrow, controversial view of what the outcomes of democratic procedures should be, much as a good justification of a particular ...
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On Democracy's Epistemic Value
The Good Society, 2009“On Friday, April 15, at 8:45 p.m., Great Britain sat down to dinner.” So began an article I wrote in 1994 on the world’s first deliberative poll. “The nation sat at tables covered in white linen in the dining room of the Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester. How does a whole nation fit in one room? With a bit of twentiethcentury sleight of hand; with
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Institutionalizing Epistemic Democracy
2020This chapter discusses the social and economic conditions needed for the epistemic value of deliberative democracy. A division of epistemic and political labor should be implemented, with citizens and their representatives setting the aims and values the society is to pursue, and experts and policymakers devising means (laws and decisions) for the ...
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An Epistemic Conception of Democracy
Ethics, 1986Following common practice, Riker's Liberalism against Populism distinguishes populist from liberal conceptions of democracy.1 Intuitively, populist conceptions emphasize that political participation and public deliberation can serve to articulate and advance a "general will," while liberal conceptions emphasize the role of regular electoral tests in ...
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2019
Many collective decisions depend upon questions about objective facts or probabilities. Several theories in social choice and political philosophy suggest that democratic institutions can obtain accurate answers to such questions. But these theories are founded on assumptions and modelling paradigms that are both implausible and incompatible with one ...
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Many collective decisions depend upon questions about objective facts or probabilities. Several theories in social choice and political philosophy suggest that democratic institutions can obtain accurate answers to such questions. But these theories are founded on assumptions and modelling paradigms that are both implausible and incompatible with one ...
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Democracy, Truth, and Understanding: An Epistemic Argument for Democracy
2020Epistemic arguments for democracy claim that democratic institutions are epistemically and not just morally superior to non-democratic alternatives. Democratic institutions do a better job at discovering the truth, at justifying decisions and policies, and at gathering and creating knowledge.
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Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy
2020This compelling new book explores whether the ability of democratic procedures to produce correct outcomes increases the legitimacy of such political decisions. Mapping and critically engaging with the main theories of epistemic democracy, it additionally evaluates arguments for different democratic decision-making procedures related to aggregative and
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An Epistemic Defense of Democracy: Democracies Do It Better?
2015I have shown (chapters 2, 3, and 4) that individuals who are weakly altruistic have an incentive to vote, acquire political information, contribute money to candidates, and participate in a myriad of other forms of political activities. The issue of how politically informed individuals are has arisen in the more general context of how democratic ...
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