Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy

This compelling new book explores whether the ability of democratic procedures to produce correct outcomes increases the legitimacy of such political decisions. Mapping and critically engaging with the main theories of epistemic democracy, it additionally evaluates arguments for different democratic decision-making procedures related to aggregative and deliberative democracy.

Addressing both positions that are too epistemic, such as Epistrocracy and Scholocracy, as well as those that are n...