Titlebook: Social Choice and Democratic Values; Eerik Lagerspetz Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Collective decision-mak

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On Voting, in Aristotle’s .. The chapter provides historically informed description of voting rules. When there are more than two alternatives, the most important criteria of reasonability or fairness are the Condorcet criterion, the Borda criterion, and the plurality criterion. Arguably, all the real-life me

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,Arrow’s Theorem,ally, . methods of collective choice are bound to violate some plausible-looking conditions. In this chapter all the conditions used in the proof of Arrow’s Theorem are discussed one by one. I review the criticisms and proposals put forth in the literature on the Theorem, and try to show that in the

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Pluralism and Majority Decision,es. Pluralist arrangements increase stability because they provide reasons for minorities to participate in democratic politics, and make the traditional problem of “majority tyranny” less relevant. The Rikerian “instability” of decisions may actually be a source of political stability. First, some

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Some Conclusions,ictatorship and democratic chaos”, or between “liberalism and populism” it has interesting connections to political philosophy. The social choice results are potentially relevant for the discussion on the virtues and vices of different real-life democratic mechanisms, and some traditional, non-techn

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Some Conclusions,ical problems of political philosophy may actually be seen as instances of the more general problems revealed by the theory of social choice. Sometimes it is able to show that the problems have no “solution”, rather they should be seen as trade-offs between different values embodied in democratic institutions.

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1614-0311 t also incorporates historical and empirical material.Offers.This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theo