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Democratic Theory and the Public Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited

Year: 1989

Type: article

Abstract: Bernard Grofman and Scott Feld argued in the June 1988 issue of thisReviewthat Jean-Jacques Rousseau's contributions to democratic political theory could be illuminated by invoking the theorizing of one of his eighteenth-century contemporaries, the Marquis de Condorcet, about individual and collective preferences or judgments. Grofman and Feld's claims about collective consciousness and the efficacy of the public interest provoke debate. One focus of discourse lies in the application of Condorcet's jury theorem to Rousseau's theory of the general will. In this controversy David M. Estlund and Jeremy Waldron in turn raise a variety of issues of theory and interpretation; Grofman and Feld then extend their argument, and propose clarifications.

Source: American Political Science Review

DOI: 10.2307/1961672

Authors: David M. Estlund, Jeremy Waldron, Bernard Grofman, Scott L. Feld

Institutions: University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley, Stony Brook University

Language: English

Topic: Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2313912331

FWCI: 3.445

Cites: 49

Cited by: 191

Related to: 10