Majoritarian democracy undermines truth-finding in deliberative committees

The aggregated judgments of many usually outperform individual estimates of vaguely known facts. Communication among individuals may, however, undermine this wisdom-of-crowd effect because it makes judgments mutually dependent. Deliberative democratic theory, on the other hand, suggests that communi...

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Autores principales: Jan Lorenz, Heiko Rauhut, Bernhard Kittel
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publishing 2015-05-01
Colección:Research & Politics
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168015582287