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EPISTEMIC DEMOCRACY WITH DEFENSIBLE PREMISES [PDF]
Economics and Philosophy, 2013 The contemporary theory of epistemic democracy often draws on the Condorcet Jury Theorem to formally justify the ‘wisdom of crowds’. But this theorem is inapplicable in its current form, since one of its premises – voter independence – is notoriously violated.
Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai
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Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023 Democracy relies on a shared body of knowledge among citizens, for example trust in elections and reliable knowledge to inform policy-relevant debate. We review the evidence for widespread disinformation campaigns that are undermining this shared knowledge.
Lewandowsky, Stephan +5 more
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Epistemic theories of democracy, constitutionalism and the procedural legitimacy of fundamental rights [PDF]
, 2013 The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the legitimacy of constitutional laws and bills of rights within the framework of procedural epistemic democracy. The thesis is divided into three sections.
Allard-Tremblay, Yann
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Comparative standard in institutional epistemology [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2019 Which epistemic value is the standard according to which we ought to compare, assess and design institutional arrangements in terms of their epistemic properties?
Zubčić Marko-Luka
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Citizenry incompetence and the epistemic structure of society
Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 The epistemic structure of society, with its division of epistemic and cognitive labour, can help us deal with the citizenry incompetence threat that many contemporary conceptions of democracy suffer as long as a certain intellectual character is ...
Leandro De Brasi
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Deliberation and epistemic democracy
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019 We study the effects of deliberation on epistemic social choice, in two settings. In the first setting, the group faces a binary epistemic decision analogous to the Condorcet Jury Theorem. In the second setting, group members have probabilistic beliefs arising from their private information, and the group wants to aggregate these beliefs in a way that ...
Ding, Huihui, Pivato, Marcus
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, 2009 This short paper focuses on the relationship between the procedural and the epistemic arguments for democracy in David Estlund’s epistemic proceduralism.
Lundström, Mats,
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Democracy, Truth, and Epistemic Proceduralism [PDF]
, 2020 The usual justifications of democracy attach central importance to fair decision-making procedures. However, it is being increasingly emphasized that it is necessary to address epistemic considerations to justify democracy and democratic authority.
Mladenović, Ivan
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Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and Why It Matters
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2012 This paper presents the foundations of a systematic epistemic case for democracy as a collective decision-rule and explores the implications of this epistemic claim for normative justifications of democracy, scientific explanations of its empirical ...
Hélène Landemore
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The division of epistemic labor in democracy
Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2015 Thomas Christiano claims that one of the fundamental challenges democracy is faced with is the appropriate division of epistemic labor between citizens and experts.
Snježana Prijić Samaržija
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