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Democratic Reason : Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Landemore, Helene, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The maze and the masses
  • Democracy as the rule of the dumb many?
  • A selective genealogy of the epistemic argument for democracy
  • First mechanism of democratic reason: inclusive deliberation
  • Epistemic failures of deliberation
  • Second mechanism of democratic reason: majority rule.