This paper provides an introductory review of the theory of judgment aggregation. It
introduces the paradoxes of majority voting that originally motivated the field, explains …

Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at
least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785 …

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Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many Hélène Landemore Princeton University …

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of
individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important …

Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk
researcher must read this book-it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk …

In normative political theory, it is widely accepted that democratic decision-making cannot be
reduced to voting alone, but that it requires reasoned and well-informed discussion by those …

Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of
people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the …

Political legitimacy is a virtue of political institutions and of the decisions—about laws,
policies, and candidates for political office—made within them. This entry will survey the …

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The Herald of Free Enterprise, a ferry operating in the English Channel, sank on March 6,
1987, drowning nearly two hundred people. The official inquiry found that the company …