TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elster,Jon
TI  - Securities against misrule: juries, assemblies, elections 
SN  - 9781107031739 (hardback)
AV  - JF 1051 E49  2013
U1  - 302.3 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bentham, Jeremy,
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Group decision making
KW  - Abuse of administrative power
KW  - Prevention
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-313) and index; 	Introduction; 1. The normative study of collective decision making; 2. Ignorance, secrecy, and publicity in jury decision making; 3. A dialogue with Bentham; 4. The optimal design of constituent assemblies; 5. Cross-voting: a study in failure; 6. Conclusion
N2  - "This book proposes a normative theory of collective decision making, inspired by Jeremy Bentham but not including his utilitarian philosophy. The central proposal is that in designing democratic institutions one should reduce as much as possible the impact of self-interest, passion, prejudice, and bias on the decision makers, and then let the chips fall where they may. There is no independently defined good outcome that institutions can track, nor is there any way of reliably selecting good decision makers. In addition to a long initial chapter that surveys theories of collective decision making, notably social-choice theory, and a chapter expounding and discussing Bentham,Ŵs views, historical chapters on the jury, constituent assemblies, and electoral systems develop and illustrate the main ideas. This work draws on a welter of case studies and historical episodes, from Thucydides and Plutarch to the present. It is also grounded in psychology, behavioral economics, and law"--
ER  -