Introduction

Eerik Lagerspetz
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Eerik Lagerspetz: University of Turku

Chapter Chapter 1 in Social Choice and Democratic Values, 2016, pp 1-16 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The study of social choice has produced more and more results in an increasing speed. Most of them are impossibility results; many of them are quite impenetrable for a lay person. Nevertheless, the basic results seem to say something important about the nature and workings of democracy. However, there are numerous mutually contradicting attempts to decipher the true meaning of the results. It has, for example, been claimed that the results are merely mathematical curiosities with no practical relevance. It has also been claimed that the results show how democracy is strictly speaking impossible. If the formal results themselves are proved to be beyond any logical criticism, why there is such enormous variety of interpretations? And what is the real meaning of the results?

Keywords: Social Choice; Vote Rule; Direct Democracy; Strategic Vote; Social Choice Theorist (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23261-4_1

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