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Democracy Defended

Gerry Mackie · Cambridge University Press · 2003

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Type: Book
Author: Gerry Mackie
Identifier: DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511490293
Accessed: 2026-09-01
Reliability notes: ISBN 9780521827089.

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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.