Refereed journal article or data article (A1)
Social choice, stable outcomes and deliberative democracy
List of Authors: Nurmi Hannu
Publisher: De Gruyter Poland, Sciendo
Place: Varsova
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Control and Cybernetics
Volume number: 51
Issue number: 2
Start page: 137
End page: 149
eISSN: 2720-4278
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/candc-2022-0011
URL: https://doi.org/10.2478/candc-2022-0011
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/175928453
It has turned out that all voting rules fail on some intuitively plausible desiderata. This has led some political scientists to argue that the notion of the will of the people is profoundly ambiguous and the absence of voting equilibria a generic state of affairs. As a constructive remedy to this some authors have introduced the idea of deliberative democracy. This view of democracy has much to recommend itself, most importantly the emphasis on individuals in devising the decision alternatives. Some empirical evidence also suggests that the deliberative institutions provide an escape from some of the most notorious incompatibility results in social choice theory. We shall critically examine this suggestion. The view emerging from this examination is that social choice theory and deliberative democracy are complementary, not competing approaches to democratic decision making.
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