Democratic Reason : : Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many / / Hélène Landemore.
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, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | Core Textbook |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter One: The Maze and the Masses
- Chapter Two: Democracy as the Rule
- Chapter Three: A Selective Genealogy of the Epistemic Argument for Democracy
- Chapter Four: First Mechanism of Democratic Reason: Inclusive Deliberation
- Chapter Five: Epistemic Failures of Deliberation
- Chapter Six: Second Mechanism of Democratic Reason: Majority Rule
- Chapter Seven: Epistemic Failures of Majority Rule: Real and Imagined
- Chapter Eight: Political Cognitivism: A Defense
- Conclusion: Democracy as a Gamble Worth Taking
- Bibliography
- Index