Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

Princeton University Press (2012)
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The maze and the masses -- Democracy as the rule of the dumb many? -- A selective genealogy of the epistemic argument for democracy -- First mechanism of democratic reason: inclusive deliberation -- Epistemic failures of deliberation -- Second mechanism of democratic reason: majority rule.

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