Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 A comparison of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy; 3 Circumventing Arrow's theorem; 4 An empirical test of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy; 5 Hobbesian sovereignty and the spectre of tyranny; 6 Democracy versus constitutionalism; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic politics and decision-making. This essential volume addresses the dispute between these competing school
