Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (3):277–306 (2001)
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This paper generalises the classical Condorcet jury theorem from majority voting over two options to plurality voting over multiple options. The paper further discusses the debate between epistemic and procedural democracy and situates its formal results in that debate. The paper finally compares a number of different social choice procedures for many-option choices in terms of their epistemic merits. An appendix explores the implications of some of the present mathematical results for the question of how probable majority cycles (as in Condorcet's paradox) are in large electorates.
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Keywords | Condorcet's jury theorem majority rule plurality rule epistemic democracy procedural democracy preference cycles probability of cycles |
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DOI | 10.1111/1467-9760.00128 |
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