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, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 279 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400845538 140084553X 9781283864121 1283864126 |