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    Challenges→On the procedural account, citizens do not need any specifically moral qualities for the general will to emerge.

    Arrow's impossibility theorem demonstrates that aggregating individual preferences through formal procedures cannot reliably produce coherent collective outcomes.

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    • 1.Arrow proved mathematically that no voting rule satisfies all five reasonable fairness criteria simultaneously, not merely empirically.
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    • 2.Real democracies exhibit preference cycles and reversals when procedures change, confirming Arrow's abstract prediction in practice.
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    • 3.Dictatorship or agenda manipulation are unavoidable under any formal system, showing coherence requires abandoning democratic ideals.
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    • 1.Arrow's conditions include Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, which many argue is too restrictive and not normatively required.
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    • 2.Impossibility applies only to unrestricted preference domains; real electorates have structured, limited preference patterns enabling solutions.
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    • 3.The theorem proves no perfect system exists, not that aggregation produces incoherent outcomes; satisficing beats perfectionism.
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