Plural Voting for the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4351114 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Mulligan (0000-0002-9088-5249, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 271 |
| Pages | 286-306 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqx046 |
| OpenAlex | W2754910030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 52 |
Recent political developments cast doubt on the wisdom of democratic decision-making. Brexit, the Colombian people's (initial) rejection of peace with the FARC, and the election of Donald Trump suggest that the time is right to explore alternatives to democracy. In this essay, I describe and defend the epistocratic system of government which is, given current theoretical and empirical knowledge, most likely to produce optimal political outcomes—or at least better outcomes than democracy produces. To wit, we should expand the suffrage as wide as possible and weight citizens’ votes in accordance with their competence. As it turns out, the optimal system is closely related to J. S. Mill's plural voting proposal. I also explain how voters’ competences can be precisely determined, without reference to an objective standard of correctness and without generating invidious comparisons between voters.
Linguistics · Plural · Political science · Politics · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Secret Government
Overdoing Democracy
Meritocratic Democracy
The Voting Rights of Senior Citizens
An Epistemic Problem for Epistocracy
Stability in Liberal Epistocracies
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy
Optimizing political influence
One person, one vote and the importance of baseline
There is no right to a competent electorate
In defense of the jury argument
Bad language makes good politics
Does epistemic proceduralism justify the disenfranchisement of children
Independence and democracy
The future-oriented franchise
What militant democrats and technocrats share
An epistemic case for confucian democracy
On the coherence of the Rawlsian non-minimalist methodological approach
Epistocracy and Public Interests
Does the Demographic Objection to Epistocracy Succeed
Standpoints, Knowledge, and Power
Are knowledgeable voters better voters
Inadequate for democracy
The Purpose and Limits of Electoral Accountability
Why Paternalists Must Endorse Epistocracy
Is Epistocracy Irrational
Second‐Order Political Equality and the Limits of Civic Accountability
Political meritocracy and the troubles of Western democracies
Should The More Highly Educated Get More Votes? Education, Voting and Representation
What’s wrong with an epistocratic council
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference
Affirmative Action in the Political Domain
Differential Voting Weights and Relational Egalitarianism
Political Meritocracy and Democracy
What Americans know about politics and why it matters
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics
Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers
Beyond Fairness and Deliberation
Opinion leaders, independence, and Condorcet's Jury Theorem
Thirteen theorems in search of the truth
Optimal Decision Rules in Uncertain Dichotomous Choice Situations
An Epistemic Conception of Democracy
The Insularity of the Reasonable
A Theory of Justice
Reflective Democracy
Democracy and Social Choice
Democracy and Moral Conflict
On the Compatibility of Epistocracy and Public Reason
Epistemic Democracy
Mill and the Secret Ballot
The Impact of Education on Intergroup Attitudes
Proving a distribution-free generalization of the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Optimizing group judgmental accuracy in the presence of interdependencies
Democracy Without Preference
A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare
How much does schooling influence general intelligence and its cognitive components? A reassessment of the evidence
The Hazards of Correcting Myths About Health Care Reform
Determinants of Turnout and Candidate Choice in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
The Place of Plural Voting in Mill's Conception of Representative Government
How Explicit Racial Prejudice Hurt Obama in the 2008 Election
The Social Sources of Political Knowledge
The Condorcet Jury Theorem, Free Speech, and Correlated Votes
The Right to a Competent Electorate
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |