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Various Landemore Delib & Cog Divers cites















 * HL: says he "has argued for a trichotomous diversity of opinions, values, and perspectives as a means to support the epistemic benefit of deliberative democracy"
 * HL: says he "has argued for a trichotomous diversity of opinions, values, and perspectives as a means to support the epistemic benefit of deliberative democracy"
 * HL: says he "has argued for a trichotomous diversity of opinions, values, and perspectives as a means to support the epistemic benefit of deliberative democracy"










 * esp. interesting for Martin: "... his earlier scientific work was in stratospheric modelling and numerical methods; astrophysics; and wind power and electricity grids." Australian.
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"
































 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"




 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons" (pp. 78-103)
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons" (pp. 78-103)




















 * HL see comment on Fishkin 2009 abt language/culture barriers.
 * HL see comment on Fishkin 2009 abt language/culture barriers.




 * HL book cites for analysis of Athens' Sicilian Expedition


 * HL: "skepticism [about language/culture differences] can be partially countered in light of the positive results obtained in many deliberative settings, particularly [Fishkin's] across the globe, sometimes despite challenging communicative contexts induced by language barriers and cultural differences... "
 * HL: "skepticism [about language/culture differences] can be partially countered in light of the positive results obtained in many deliberative settings, particularly [Fishkin's] across the globe, sometimes despite challenging communicative contexts induced by language barriers and cultural differences... "


 * HL, fresh air vs. avoiding a draft - synthesis: open a window in another room.
 * HL, fresh air vs. avoiding a draft - synthesis: open a window in another room.


















 * HL: "[They] emphasize that the epistemic gain [from] what they call the Selection effect (the choice of representatives based on their alleged competence) is probably relatively small..."
 * HL: "[They] emphasize that the epistemic gain [from] what they call the Selection effect (the choice of representatives based on their alleged competence) is probably relatively small..."












 * HL: Hong & Page "provide a much more fine-grained and specific account of the kind of diversity that matters for group competence. [It] is not primarily a diversity of opinions, values, "perspectives" (as end-results rather than processes), or even [...] of social and economic backgrounds [e.g. Sunstein's “social” heterogeneity] [.... but] a more fundamental cognitive diversity[...]: how each individual sees the world, interprets problems and makes predictions in it."
 * HL: Hong & Page "provide a much more fine-grained and specific account of the kind of diversity that matters for group competence. [It] is not primarily a diversity of opinions, values, "perspectives" (as end-results rather than processes), or even [...] of social and economic backgrounds [e.g. Sunstein's “social” heterogeneity] [.... but] a more fundamental cognitive diversity[...]: how each individual sees the world, interprets problems and makes predictions in it."


 * WP bio tagged for notability concerns - write to him about fixing that.
 * WP bio tagged for notability concerns - write to him about fixing that.
 * WP bio tagged for notability concerns - write to him about fixing that.


























 * HL, cites for term limits as "essential and uncontroversial feature" of representative democracies.
 * HL, cites for term limits as "essential and uncontroversial feature" of representative democracies.


 * HL, fresh air vs. avoiding a draft - synthesis: open a window in another room.
 * HL, fresh air vs. avoiding a draft - synthesis: open a window in another room.


 * HL - citing for "selective descriptive representation" (oversampling possibly underrepresented, disadvantaged cognitive minorities) cf. what JM calls (after A.H. Birch 1993) "microcosmic descriptive" (pure sortition) which JM feels is "too utopian" (in HL's words?). Selectivity would supposedly "enhance the substantive representation of these disadvantaged groups' interests as well as improve the self-image of those communities or increase the polity's de facto legitimacy [presumably with those groups]".
 * HL - citing for "selective descriptive representation" (oversampling possibly underrepresented, disadvantaged cognitive minorities) cf. what JM calls (after A.H. Birch 1993) "microcosmic descriptive" (pure sortition) which JM feels is "too utopian" (in HL's words?). Selectivity would supposedly "enhance the substantive representation of these disadvantaged groups' interests as well as improve the self-image of those communities or increase the polity's de facto legitimacy [presumably with those groups]".






 * Actually seems to get The Discourses, his seemingly oxymoronic title notwithstanding. No Amazon review yet.
 * Enviro policy before this. Euro guy now. Maybe knows our Japan Oxonian Euro guy? WP bio needs cleanup.
 * Enviro policy before this. Euro guy now. Maybe knows our Japan Oxonian Euro guy? WP bio needs cleanup.


 * HL: quotes Mill saying this assembly should be "a fair sample of every grade of intellect among the people" rather than "a selection of the greatest political minds in the country" (Mill 2010 [1861]: 74-75).
 * HL: quotes Mill saying this assembly should be "a fair sample of every grade of intellect among the people" rather than "a selection of the greatest political minds in the country" (Mill 2010 [1861]: 74-75).


 * HL, cites for those " agonistic pluralists" who "argue that problem-solving does not exhaust the tasks that representatives have to accomplish [...] a lot of politics is in fact about bargaining, the defense of particular interests or, even, more fundamentally, an existential clash of worldviews and values..." She goes on to say that this view is still "parasitic on a deliberative approach [....] For politics to be possible at all, rather than pure “agon” or war, there must be some fundamental domain of rational agreement to begin with."
 * HL, cites for those " agonistic pluralists" who "argue that problem-solving does not exhaust the tasks that representatives have to accomplish [...] a lot of politics is in fact about bargaining, the defense of particular interests or, even, more fundamentally, an existential clash of worldviews and values..." She goes on to say that this view is still "parasitic on a deliberative approach [....] For politics to be possible at all, rather than pure “agon” or war, there must be some fundamental domain of rational agreement to begin with."




 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"










 * HL: he "stressed ... diversity of "thought and culture" in the ability of the democratic institutions of Ancient Athens to aggregate the distributed knowledge of its citizens and to solve various public action problems ..."
 * HL: he "stressed ... diversity of "thought and culture" in the ability of the democratic institutions of Ancient Athens to aggregate the distributed knowledge of its citizens and to solve various public action problems ..."








 * In
 * HL: Hong-Page "cognitive diversity" (="functional diversity") is "a diversity of perspectives (the way of representing situations and problems), ... interpretations (the way of categorizing or partitioning perspectives), ... heuristics (the way of generating solutions to problems), and ... predictive models (the way of inferring cause and effect) (Page 2007: 7)+(Hong & Page 2004)?
 * HL: "under some conditions, a randomly selected collection of problem solvers outperforms a collection of the best individual problem solvers"








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 * HL cite for term "descriptive representation"
 * HL cite for "the concept of representation is multi-faceted"
 * HL cite for "the concept of representation is multi-faceted"




 * HL book cites him as using the phrase "hatred of democracy" to describe confirmation bias in "stressing examples of evil majorities".
























 * HL: He "provocatively suggests randomly assigning for life every new voter, upon their registration at 18, to one of 435 virtual constituencies [... which, he says,] would not only bring us closer to the real intentions of the Founders when they designed large territorial districts, but also closer to the normative ideal of legitimate representation."
 * HL: He "provocatively suggests randomly assigning for life every new voter, upon their registration at 18, to one of 435 virtual constituencies [... which, he says,] would not only bring us closer to the real intentions of the Founders when they designed large territorial districts, but also closer to the normative ideal of legitimate representation."


 * HL - "...individuals come equipped with different cognitive toolboxes...
 * HL - "...individuals come equipped with different cognitive toolboxes...


 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"


 * HL - "...individuals come equipped with different cognitive toolboxes...
 * HL - "...individuals come equipped with different cognitive toolboxes...


 * [Clean up my cite, since the URL is to an edited volume.]
 * HL quotes: cognition is "a cover term whose extension includes our own reasoning processes, the up-dating of our beliefs as the result of perception ..."
 * HL quotes: cognition is "a cover term whose extension includes our own reasoning processes, the up-dating of our beliefs as the result of perception ..."


 * Has commented on the work of a Waseda Prof, Tomonori Morikawa - http://www.politicsandthelifesciences.org/Contents/Contents-2002-3/PLS2002-3-2.pdf.
 * Has commented on the work of a Waseda Prof, Tomonori Morikawa - http://www.politicsandthelifesciences.org/Contents/Contents-2002-3/PLS2002-3-2.pdf.


 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"
 * HL cites for sortition proposed "generally on fairness grounds and for procedural reasons"


 * HL, citing, says many political theorists say "a plurality of opinions and enough social heterogeneity for the quality of group deliberation [...] protect collective decisions against the risk of group polarization"
 * HL, citing, says many political theorists say "a plurality of opinions and enough social heterogeneity for the quality of group deliberation [...] protect collective decisions against the risk of group polarization"


 * See HL on Sunstein 2003 above
 * HL: "... hard to find compelling examples of deliberation in parliamentary settings [...] because of the difficulty to meet the conditions for ideal democratic deliberation assumed by formal models, [e.g.], [being] informed enough and sufficiently immune to [discussion] problems [...] such as social pressures and [...] 'the law of group polarization'...."
 * HL: "... hard to find compelling examples of deliberation in parliamentary settings [...] because of the difficulty to meet the conditions for ideal democratic deliberation assumed by formal models, [e.g.], [being] informed enough and sufficiently immune to [discussion] problems [...] such as social pressures and [...] 'the law of group polarization'...."








 * Forthcoming. Write for review copy?
 * Forthcoming. Write for review copy?








 * HL: cite for anchoring effects
 * HL: cite for anchoring effects






 * HL cited this to say Citizen Assemblies are somewhat self- and chairman-selected.
 * HL cited this to say Citizen Assemblies are somewhat self- and chairman-selected.






 * HL, cites this for Ober's "diversity of thought and culture" being claimed "with respect to the problem-solving abilities of culturally diverse groups compared to more culturally homogenous groups, provided the communication barriers have been overcome."
 * HL, cites this for Ober's "diversity of thought and culture" being claimed "with respect to the problem-solving abilities of culturally diverse groups compared to more culturally homogenous groups, provided the communication barriers have been overcome."