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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Research & Politics |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168015582287 |