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View SchemaTowards a New Democracy: Consensus Through Quantum Parliament
| Authors | Diederik Aerts |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0503078 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0503078 |
| DOI | 10.1142/9789812702043_0011 |
| Journal | In D. Aerts, B. D'Hooghe and N. Note (Eds.), Worldviews, Science and Us, Redemarcating Knowledge and its Social and Ethical Implications. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005. |
Abstract
We compare different actual forms of democracy and analyse in which way they are variations of a 'natural consensus decision process'. We analyse how 'consensus decision followed by majority voting' is open to 'false play' by the majority, and investigate how other types of false play appear in alternative types of democratic decision procedures. We introduce the combined notion of 'quantum parliament' and 'quantum decision procedure', and prove it to be the only one, when applied after consensus decision, that is immune to false play.
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