Essays about: "Ivar Larsson"

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  1. 1. A Defense of Helene Landemore’s Argument for the Epistemic Superiority of Democratic Deliberation

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Ivar Larsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Democracy; epistemic democracy;

    Abstract : In this essay I investigate whether political deliberation in an assembly of 300 people that is randomly selected from the entire population (democratic deliberation) is epistemically superior to political deliberation in an assembly of the same size where individuals have been selected based on certain criteria (non-democratic deliberation). I present Helene Landemore’s argument in favor of the epistemic superiority of democratic deliberation and consider Aaron Ancell’s critique of this argument. READ MORE