Collection
Deliberation and Aggregation
- Submission status
- Closed
Authors are invited to submit papers that contribute to understand how, and when, deliberation and aggregation can be conjoined in order to arrive at better processes of collective attitude formation. Social Choice and Welfare (SCW) mainly publishes high-quality papers studying models of welfare economics and collective choice. Conceptual or philosophical papers that are of exceptional quality and close to the core topics of the journal will also be considered for this special issue.
Submit complete papers for peer review through the link to the electronic submission system on https://www.springer.com/journal/355, choosing the Special Issue on “Deliberation and Aggregation” from the drop-down list during submission. Please note in the cover letter as well that the submission is meant for the Special Issue on “Deliberation and Aggregation.”
Submissions accepted before the completion of the issue will be published ‘online first’ in SCW, they will be fully citable with the DOI.
Background
Preferences and beliefs are routinely attributed to groups. A jury can believe the accused to be guilty, and a professional board can officially voice its disapproval of certain practices by its members. The special issue aims at putting together contributions that take steps towards bridging the gap between the two main paradigms in formal philosophy and economics on the formation of such collective attitudes: the deliberative and aggregative views. On the deliberative view, group attitudes stem from a consensus reached after a (more or less) structured exchange of opinions. On the aggregative view, group attitudes are formed by putting together the possibly diverging views of individuals, through a formal voting procedure for instance.
Deliberation and aggregation are typically both involved in collective attitude formation. We cannot deliberate endlessly. When disagreements persist, aggregating, e.g. by voting, might be the only way to arrive at a group opinion. So deliberation and aggregation are not competing, but complementary approaches. Up to now, however, they have mostly been studied separately. This is an important limitation, and many authors have defended the view that deliberation and aggregation can enhance each other: Deliberation can support meaningful aggregation, for instance by preventing preference cycles. On the other hand specific forms of aggregation can possibly help overcome some of the negative effects of deliberation, for instance by minimizing strategic behavior in deliberation, or attenuating the effects of polarization and groupthink.
The goal of this special issue is to put together a number of original articles that further our understanding of how, and when, deliberation and aggregation can be conjoined in order to arrive at better processes of collective attitude formation. The overarching question is how deliberation can be better geared towards aggregation, and how to enrich current models of belief and preference aggregation to make them more amenable to the results of deliberation
Editors
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Mikaël Cozic
Université Paris-Est Créteil, France, mikael.cozic@u-pec.fr
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Olivier Roy
University of Bayreuth, Olivier.Roy@uni-bayreuth.de
Articles (7 in this collection)
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Voting behavior in one-shot and iterative multiple referenda
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Umberto Grandi
- Jérôme Lang
- Stéphane Airiau
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 10 December 2022
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Valuation of ecosystem services and social choice: the impact of deliberation in the context of two different aggregation rules
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Mariam Maki Sy
- Charles Figuières
- Rutger De Wit
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 02 August 2022
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Optimizing political influence: a jury theorem with dynamic competence and dependence
Authors
- Thomas Mulligan
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 13 May 2022
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Correction to: Million dollar questions: why deliberation is more than information pooling
Authors
- Daniel Hoek
- Richard Bradley
- Content type: Correction
- Open Access
- Published: 27 April 2022
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Deliberative democracy and utilitarianism
Authors
- Antoine Billot
- Xiangyu Qu
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 26 April 2022
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Million dollar questions: why deliberation is more than information pooling
Authors
- Daniel Hoek
- Richard Bradley
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 29 March 2022