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Is Democracy Impossible?: Riker's Mistaken Accounts of Antebellum Politics

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dc.contributor.authorMackie, Gerryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2003-01-24en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-19T17:58:23Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-05T08:51:02Z
dc.date.available2004-05-19T17:58:23Zen_US
dc.date.available2011-01-05T08:51:02Z
dc.date.created2001en_US
dc.date.issued2001en_US
dc.description.abstract<P><B>Introduction.</B> <BR>In his Liberalism against Populism, an interpretation of the results of social choice theory, Riker (1982) makes an apparently powerful case against the very intelligibility of majoritarian democracy. Because different voting systems yield different outcomes from the same profile of individual voters' preferences, he argues, democracy is inaccurate. The claim is made by way of examples that establish logical possibility. However, for real-world distributions of individual preference orders – individual orderings are at least mildly correlated with one another rather than random – the reasonable voting rules tend to converge on the same outcomes (Mackie 2000).</P>en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/41746en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41746
dc.language.isoen_AUen_US
dc.subjectLiberalismen_US
dc.subjectPopulismen_US
dc.subjectsocial choice theoryen_US
dc.subjectmajoritarian democracyen_US
dc.subjectvoting systemshoiceen_US
dc.titleIs Democracy Impossible?: Riker's Mistaken Accounts of Antebellum Politicsen_US
dc.typeWorking/Technical Paperen_US
local.citationWorking Paper No.19, 19th June 2001en_US
local.contributor.affiliationSPT, RSSSen_US
local.contributor.affiliationANUen_US
local.description.refereednoen_US
local.identifier.citationyear2001en_US
local.identifier.eprintid788en_US
local.rights.ispublishedyesen_US

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