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Landemore Democratic Reason
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Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4553-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Entscheidungsfindung
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Behaviourismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
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Acknowledgments xi
Prologue xv
CHAPTER ONE: The Maze and the Masses 1
- 1. The Maze and the Masses 3
- 2. On the Meaning of Democracy 10
- 3. The Domain of Democratic Reason and the Circumstances of Politics 13
- 4. Democratic Reason as Collective Intelligence of the People 17
- 5. Overview of the Book 23
CHAPTER TWO: Democracy as the Rule of the Dumb Many? 27
- 1. The Antidemocratic Prejudice in Contemporary Democratic Theory 29
- 2. What's Wrong with the People? 31
CHAPTER THREE: A Selective Genealogy of the Epistemic Argument for Democracy 53
- 1. The Myth of Protagoras: Universal Political Wisdom 55
- 2. Aristotle's Feast: The More, the Wiser 59
- 3. Machiavelli: Vox Populi, Vox Dei 64
- 4. Spinoza: The Rational Majority 67
- 5. Rousseau: The General Will Is Always Right 69
- 6. Condorcet: Large Numbers and Smart Majorities 70
- 7. John Stuart Mill: Epistemic Democrat or Epistemic Liberal? 75
- 8. Dewey: Democracy and Social Intelligence 82
- 9. Hayek: The Distributed Knowledge of Society 85
CHAPTER FOUR: First Mechanism of Democratic Reason: Inclusive Deliberation 89
- 1. Deliberation: The Force of the Better Argument 90
- 2. Deliberation as Problem Solving: Why More Cognitive Diversity Is Smarter 97
- 3. Why More-Inclusive Deliberating Groups Are Smarter 104
- 4. Representation 105
- 5. Election versus Random Selection 108
CHAPTER FIVE: Epistemic Failures of Deliberation 118
- 1. General Problems and Classical Solutions 120
- 2. A Reply from Psychology: The Argumentative Theory of Reasoning 123
- Conclusion 143
CHAPTER SIX: Second Mechanism of Democratic Reason: Majority Rule 145
- 1. The Condorcet Jury Theorem 147
- 2. The Miracle of Aggregation 156
- 3. Models of Cognitive Diversity 160
- Appendix 1: The Law of Large Numbers in the Condorcet Jury Theorem 166
- Appendix 2: The Logic of Cognitive Diversity in Judgment Aggregation 169
- Appendix 3: Information Markets and Democracy 173
CHAPTER SEVEN: Epistemic Failures of Majority Rule: Real and Imagined 185
- 1. Politics of Judgment versus Politics of Interest and the Irrelevance of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem 185
- 2. The Problem of Informational Free Riding 193
- 3. The Problem of Voters' Systematic Biasesand Their "Rational Irrationality" 195
- Conclusion 206
CHAPTER EIGHT: Political Cognitivism: A Defense 208
- 1. Political Decision Making as Imperfect Procedural Justice 210
- 2. Political Cognitivism: Weak versus Strong 211
- 3. The Three Sides of Political Questions 213
- 4. Political Cognitivism: Culturalist versus Absolutist 217
- 5. Implications for the Epistemic Argument for Democracy 219
- 6. Status of the Standard: Postulate or Empirical Benchmark? 219
- 7. The Antiauthoritarian Objection 223
- Conclusion 230
CONCLUSION: Democracy as a Gamble Worth Taking 232
- 1. Summary 232
- 2. Preconditions of Democratic Reason 233
- 3. Limits of the Metaphor of the Maze 234
- 4. Empirical Segue to the Theoretical Epistemic Claim 238
- 5. The Wisdom of the Past Many and Democracy as a Learning Process 239
- 6. Reason and Rationality 241
Bibliography 243
Index 265
