Overview
- Builds an innovative structure than can be used to bring order to numerous accounts of epistemic democracy
- Critically engages with the main theories of epistemic democracy
- Discusses the implementation of the epistemic ideal to real world politics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy (PASEPP)
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About this book
This compelling new book explores whether the ability of democratic procedures to produce correct outcomes increases the legitimacy of such political decisions. Mapping and critically engaging with the main theories of epistemic democracy, it additionally evaluates arguments for different democratic decision-making procedures related to aggregative and deliberative democracy.
Addressing both positions that are too epistemic, such as Epistrocracy and Scholocracy, as well as those that are not epistemic enough, such as Pure Epistemic Proceduralism and Pragmatist Deliberative Democracy, Cerovac builds an innovative structure that can be used to bring order to numerous accounts of epistemic democracy. Introducing an appropriate account of epistemic democracy, Cerovac proceeds to analyse whether such epistemic value is better achieved through aggregative or deliberative procedures.
Drawing particularly on the work of David Estlund, and including a discussion on the implementation of the epistemic ideal to real world politics, this is a fascinating read for all those interested in democratic decision-making.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ivan Cerovac is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Trieste, Italy, and writes and teaches on a range of topics in ethics and political philosophy, including political legitimacy, social justice and democratic theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy
Authors: Ivan Cerovac
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44602-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44601-7Published: 23 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44604-8Published: 23 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44602-4Published: 22 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2738
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2746
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 242
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Philosophy, Epistemology