An Epistemic Theory of Democracy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvRobert E. Goodin,Kai Spiekermann,Robert E. Goodin,Kai Spiekermann

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Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785, when Condorcet published his famous jury theorem. But that theorem has typically been dismissed as little more than a mathematical curiosity, with assumptions too restrictive for it to apply to the real world. In An Epistemic Theory of Democracy, Goodin and Spiekermann propose different ways of interpreting voter independence and competence to make jury theorems more generally applicable. They go on to assess a wide range of familiar political practices and alternative institutional arrangements, to determine what constellation of them might most fully exploit the truth-tracking potential of majoritarian democracy. The book closes with a discussion of how epistemic democracy might be undermined, using as case studies the Trump and Brexit campaigns.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-05-03
Mått164 x 242 x 33 mm
Vikt876 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor470
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198823452
UtmärkelserWinner of the American Political Science Association's Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics Section Best Book Award

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Bob Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and was General Editor of the eleven-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. Goodin's work centres on political theory and public policy. He is co-author of, most recently, On Complicity and Compromise and Explaining Norms, both published by OUP in 2013. Kai Spiekermann is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Among his research interests are normative and positive political theory, philosophy of the social sciences, social epistemology and environmental change. He is particularly interested in applying formal methods, computational simulations, and experiments to problems in political philosophy. His recent publications have focused on mechanisms of norm avoidance, strategic ignorance and moral knowledge, on information aggregation, jury theorems and epistemic democracy, and on reductionism and holism in the social sciences.

1: IntroductionPart I: The Condorcet Jury Theorem2: The Classic Framework3: Extensions4: Limitations5: Independence RevisitedPart II: Epistemic Enhancement6: Improving Individual Competence7: Diversity8: Division of Epistemic Labour9: Discussion and DeliberationPart III: Political Practices10: Respecting Tradition11: Following Leaders12: Taking Cues13: Pluralism: Differing Values & Priorities14: Factionalism: Differing InterestsPart IV: Structures of Government15: Epistocracy or Democracy16: Direct versus Representative Democracy17: Institutional Hindrances to Epistemic Success18: Institutional Aids to Epistemic SuccessPart V: Conclusions19: The Relation Between Truth and Politics, Once Again20: Headline Findings, Central Implications21: Epilogue: What About Trump and Brexit?AppendicesA1: Key to NotationA2: Estimating Group Competence by Monte Carlo Simulation