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When Do Groups Get It Right? On the Epistemic Performance of Voting and Deliberation
Wann treffen Gruppen richtige Entscheidungen? Über die epistemische Leistungsfähigkeit von Wahl- und Deliberationsverfahren
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Abstract This paper examines the claim that democratic decision making is epistemically valuable. Focussing on communication and voting, circumstances are identified under which groups are able to reliably identify the ‘correct alternative.’ Employing formal models from social epistemology, group performance... mehr
This paper examines the claim that democratic decision making is epistemically valuable. Focussing on communication and voting, circumstances are identified under which groups are able to reliably identify the ‘correct alternative.’ Employing formal models from social epistemology, group performance under varying conditions in a simple epistemic task is scrutinized. Simulation results show that larger majority requirements can favour the veto power of closed-minded individuals, but can also increase precision in well-functioning groups. Reasonable scepticism against other people's opinions can provide a useful impediment to overly quick convergence onto a false consensus when independent information acquisition is possible.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Demokratietheorie; Abstimmung; Deliberation; Beratung; Erkenntnistheorie; Gruppe; Modell; Gruppenentscheidung; Entscheidungsprozess; Konsens; politische Entscheidung; Interaktion; demokratisches Verhalten; Entscheidungsfindung
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Deliberation; voting; agent-based modeling; group decision making; bounded confidence; social epistemology
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 89-109
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 1
Heftthema
Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science, History, and Philosophy
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.1.89-109
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)