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http://www.booksandideas.net/Voting-Number-or-Reason.html

Should politics be left to the people or to specialists? In 2010, Raison Publique, a French journal dedicated to the arts, politics and society published an issue devoted to the notion of collective wisdom, defending the competence of majorities and justifying democracy’s greater rationality. Confronting American political sociology to French political science, issue 12 of Raison Publique shows different approaches to democracy.

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To quote this article :
Didier Mineur, « Voting: Number or Reason? », La Vie des idées, 25 October 2013. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/Voting-Number-or-Reason.html