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The Case for Modelled Democracy.
- Source :
- Episteme (Cambridge University Press); Mar2022, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p89-110, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The fact that most of us are ignorant on politically relevant matters presents a problem for democracy. In light of this, some have suggested that we should impose epistemic constraints on democratic participation, and specifically that the franchise be restricted along competency lines – a suggestion that in turn runs the risk of violating a long-standing condition on political legitimacy to the effect that legitimate political arrangements cannot be open to reasonable objections. The present paper therefore outlines a way to solve the problem of public ignorance without restricting the franchise. The proposal involves filtering the electoral input of a universal franchise through a statistical model that simulates what the public's political preferences would have been, had they been informed on politically relevant matters. The result is modelled democracy. A case is made that such democracy both solves the problem of public ignorance and satisfies the aforementioned condition on legitimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17423600
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Episteme (Cambridge University Press)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155496810
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2020.10