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Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice

William H. Riker · W. H. Freeman · 1982

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Book
Author
William H. Riker
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 0716712458. Reissued by Waveland Press, 1988.

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DisputedWhether social choice results undermine the idea of a popular will is disputed: Riker read Arrow's theorem as proof that populist democracy is impossible, while Mackie argued that cycling and manipulation are not frequent or harmful enough to matter and behavioural studies find cycles less likely than under impartial-culture assumptions.