Democratic Reason (eBook)

Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

Helene Landemore (Autor)

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2012
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4553-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Helene Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision making form a cognitive system that ensures that decisions taken by the many are more likely to be right than decisions taken by the few. Democracy as a form of government is therefore valuable not only because it is legitimate and just, but also because it is smart. Landemore considers how the argument plays out with respect to two main mechanisms of democratic politics: inclusive deliberation and majority rule. In deliberative settings, the truth-tracking properties of deliberation are enhanced more by inclusiveness than by individual competence. Landemore explores this idea in the contexts of representative democracy and the selection of representatives. She also discusses several models for the "e;wisdom of crowds"e; channeled by majority rule, examining the trade-offs between inclusiveness and individual competence in voting. When inclusive deliberation and majority rule are combined, they beat less inclusive methods, in which one person or a small group decide. Democratic Reason thus establishes the superiority of democracy as a way of making decisions for the common good.

Autor

Hélène Landemore is assistant professor of political science at Yale University. She is the author of Hume: Probability and Reasonable Choice.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.12.2012
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Accountability • against democracy • Ambiguity • Arrow's Impossibility Theorem • authoritarian objection • Behavioral Economics • Causality • cognitive artifacts • Cognitive Bias • Cognitive Diversity • Collective Decision • collective decision making • collective intelligence • collective prediction • collective wisdom • Condorcet Jury Theorem • Consideration • contemporary democratic theory • Controversy • Counters • critical literature survey • Crowdsourcing • Decision-Making • de facto • Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy • Democracy • democratic decision making • democratic deliberation • democratic institutions • democratic intelligence • Democratic norms • Democratic Politics • democratic reason • democratic theory • democratic unreason • descriptive representation • despotism • dialogical deliberation • dichotomy • Dictatorship • Direct Democracy • discursive dilemma • distrust • doctrinal paradox • dumb many • Economics • elected enlightened • Election • Emergence • Empirical Evidence • Epistemic Democracy • epistemic failures • epistemic improvements • epistemic performance • Epistemology • Explanation • FACT • Forms of Government • freedom of speech • Governance • Government • group intelligence • Group Polarization • Hannah Arendt • Harvard University • Heuristic • Human Decision Making • Ideology • inclusive deliberation • incompetent multitude • indictment • individual decision making • individual reason • informational free riding • Institution • Irrationality • John Dewey • John Stuart Mill • judgment aggregation • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • Liberalism • majority rule • Maze • metaethical views • Miracle of Aggregation • Monarchy • Multitude • Niccolò Machiavelli • of education • Oligarchy • Original Position • Philosopher • Philosophy • Policy • political cognitivism • political incompetence • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Prediction • Prejudice • Principle • Probability • Problem Solving • Procedural justice • Protagoras • Psychology • Public Opinion • public reason • Public sphere • Quantity • Racism • random lotteries • Rational Choice Theory • Rational irrationality • Rationality • reason • Referendum • Regime • Representative Democracy • Requirement • result • rhetoric • Self-Interest • skepticism • Social Choice Theory • social cognitive artifacts • Superiority (short story) • systematic biases • talkers • The Case for Democracy • Theorem • theory • theory of reasoning • The Wisdom of Crowds • Thought • Totalitarianism • Trade-off • transformative epistemic properties • Tyranny of The Majority • Uncertainty • Universal Suffrage • Value • Voting • Voting Paradox • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4553-X / 140084553X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4553-8 / 9781400845538