Securities Against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections

by Jon Elster

Book Overview

This book proposes a normative theory of collective decision making, inspired by Jeremy Bentham but not including his utilitarian philosophy. The central proposal is that in designing democratic institutions one should reduce as much as possible the impact of self-interest, passion, prejudice, and bias on the decision makers, and then let the chips fall where they may. There is no independently defined good outcome that institutions can track, nor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107649951
• ISBN13: 9781107649958
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"