| #1604493 in Books | 2012-12-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.30 x6.10 x9.20l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Democracy leverages the epistemic advantages of diversity|By Paul E Crider|Hélène Landemore's Democratic Reason is an important book in a time when democratic cynicism and illiberal attitudes are waxing. Largely avoiding fundamental questions of democratic legitimacy, she focuses on the epistemic dimensions of democracy, arguing that any reasonable case for democr
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 ta...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many | Hélène Landemore. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
