Deliberation, social choice and absolutist democracy

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Summary of the chapters -- A comparison of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- Discourse and democracy -- Social choice theory -- Criticisms of deliberative democracy -- Criticisms of social choice theory -- Conclusion -- Circumventing arrow's theorem -- Introduction -- What hope for democracy? -- Can deliberative democracy and social choice theory be made compatible? -- Abandoning democratic purity -- Limiting participation -- Conclusion -- An empirical test of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- A broad description of the institution -- Case studies: administration and governance of the West, and the location of the Capital -- Case study 1. The Northwest Ordinance of 1784 -- Settlement and distribution of Western lands 1785 -- The Northwest Ordinance 1787 -- Case study 2: The location of the capital -- Conclusion -- Hobbesian sovereignty and the specter of tyranny -- Introduction -- Hobbesian sovereignty -- Hobbes?s intentions.