Deliberative democracy and utilitarianism

Antoine Billot and Xiangyu Qu
Additional contact information
Xiangyu Qu: CNRS, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne and Wuhan University of Technology, School of Management

Social Choice and Welfare, 2024, vol. 63, issue 3, No 7, 603-617

Abstract: Abstract This paper explores the possibility, in case of belief and taste heterogeneity, to aggregate individual preferences through a deliberation process enabling society to reach a consensus. However, we show that the same deliberation process, even characterized by a convergent matrix, may lead to different consensus depending on the updating rule which is chosen by individuals, i.e., deliberation is sufficient to determine social preferences but not univocally. Then, we prove that the Pareto condition allows to choose from possible consensus the one whereby social deliberated beliefs and tastes are of a utilitarian shape.

Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00355-022-01404-8 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
Working Paper: Deliberative Democracy and Utilitarianism (2022)
Working Paper: Deliberative Democracy and Utilitarianism (2022)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:63:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s00355-022-01404-8

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... c+theory/journal/355

DOI: 10.1007/s00355-022-01404-8

Access Statistics for this article

Social Choice and Welfare is currently edited by Bhaskar Dutta, Marc Fleurbaey, Elizabeth Maggie Penn and Clemens Puppe

More articles in Social Choice and Welfare from Springer, The Society for Social Choice and Welfare Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().