Epistemic Democracy and Its Challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa Schwartzberg (0000-0003-1554-6535, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 187-203 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-110113-121908 |
| OpenAlex | W2122350207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 50 |
Epistemic democracy defends the capacity of “the many” to make correct decisions and seeks to justify democracy by reference to this ability. Epistemic democrats marshal substantial evidence from the history of political thought and a set of models to support their claims. The essay assesses this evidence and argues in favor of more empirical testing. It also cautions against using the contextually limited evidence of wise decisions as a basis for justifying democratic decision making. Instead, the article sketches a “deflationary model” that relies on neither an independent standard of correctness nor the more ambitious assertions of the reliability of the mechanisms. That model, termed judgment democracy, retains epistemic democracy's attractive respect for individual judgments and concern with institutional design, while eschewing its least plausible features
Correctness · Democracy · Democratic Theory · Economics · Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Representative democracy · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Social Choice, Nondeterminacy, and Public Reasoning
The General Will, the Common Good, and a Democracy of Standards
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Deliberation
Being under the Power of Others
Republicanism and the Future of Democracy
A Theoretical Model of How Digital Platforms for Public Consultation Can Leverage Deliberation to Boost Democratic Legitimacy
Intelligent Democracy
Knowing (with) other citizens
Should We Vote in Non-Deterministic Elections
No-Regret Learning Supports Voters’ Competence
Democracy as an Epistemic System
Cognitive Diversity or Cognitive Polarization? On Epistemic Democracy in a Post-Truth World
The metaethical dilemma of epistemic democracy
Does this democracy work? Measuring reliability, Trojan horses and the fundamental problem of evaluation
Global justice and the use of AI in education
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
Controlling Corruption
Murderers on the Ballot Paper
Political Disagreement and Minimal Epistocracy
Le démocrate doit-il renoncer à la vérité ? Sur le procéduralisme épistémique de David Estlund
Mini-publics and Political Meritocracy
Does Democratic Theory Need Epistemic Standards
Who Learns from Deliberative Minipublics? Identity-Based Differences in Knowledge Gains across Thirteen Citizens' Initiative Review Experiments
Brexit, the failure of the British political class, and the case for greater diversity in UK political recruitment
The Antidemocratic Harms of Mansplaining
Phronetic genetics
Independence and democracy
A defense of specialized citizenship
The problems democracy can solve
What is democratic reliability? Epistemic theories of democracy and the problem of reasonable disagreement
Substituting Invalid Contract Terms
Citizens with Felony Convictions in the Jury Box
The epistemic value of deliberative democracy
Toward a Radical Democratic Theory of Expertise
The Suspension Problem for Epistemic Democracy
Political Theory on Climate Change
Testing epistemic democracy’s claims for majority rule
Epistemic democracy and the quality of government
A minimal standard of democratic competence
Aristotle and the Judgment of the Many
The Political Ideas Underpinning Political Distrust
Is Public Ignorance a Problem? An Epistemic Defense of Really Existing Democracies
Social Science, Policy and Democracy
The Wisdom of the Many in Global Governance
Spotlight
Political realism and epistemic democracy
Why to be a Civic Constitutionalist
Democracy as Intellectual Taste? Pluralism in Democratic Theory
How Realistic Is the Modeling of Epistemic Democracy
The Epistemology of Democracy and the Market
Democracy and the Epistemic Limits of Markets
Trust in the Constitution
Popular Understandings and the Limits of Popular Democracy
Constitutional Fallacies
The Epistemic Value of Testimony
Epistemic democracy and the role of experts
Political Meritocracy and Democracy
AI as Governance
Democracy's Pin Factory
Deepening, Bridging, and Moving Minds in Stressful Times
Condorcet Loser in 2016
The Democratic Dilemma
Epistemic approaches to deliberative democracy
Justifying the Jury
The Power of the Multitude
Analytical Democratic Theory
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
On the relationships between critical theory and secularisation
The Constitution of deliberative democracy
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Rational Public
The Priority of Democracy
The Luck of the Draw
Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers
The Epistemology of Democracy
Opinion leaders, independence, and Condorcet's Jury Theorem
Democratic Reason
Democracy and Knowledge
An Epistemic Conception of Democracy
A Theory of Justice
The Rule of the Many
When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?
Justice as Fairness
The Constitution of Equality
Collective Wisdom
Democracy and Social Choice
Designing Democracy
Democratic Rights
The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
Philosophy, Politics, Democracy
Individualism and Economic Order
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Democratic Doubts
Epistemic Democracy
Debate
The procedural epistemic value of deliberation
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Deliberation and disagreement
Against Deliberation
Aggregation and Deliberation
Aristotle on the Virtue of the Multitude
The Wisdom of the Multitude
Democracy's Wisdom
Democratic Theory and the Public Interest
Rousseau's General Will
Between Facts and Norms
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |