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Epistemic Democracy: Generalizing the Condorcet Jury Theorem

Christian List; Robert E. Goodin · Journal of Political Philosophy 9(3), 277–306 · 2001

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Christian List; Robert E. Goodin
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DOI 10.1111/1467-9760.00128
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedThe Condorcet jury theorem states that if voters independently choose between two options and each is more likely than not to be correct, the probability that the majority is correct increases with the size of the group and converges to certainty.