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    Democracy is best able to generate legitimate outcomes am... — Carmelics
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    Democracy is best able to generate legitimate outcomes among political regimes.

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    • 1.If each voter is more likely to be correct than wrong, then a majority of all voters is also more likely to be correct than wrong (Condorcet jury theorem).
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    • 2.The probability that a majority will vote for the correct outcome increases with the size of the voting body.
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    • 3.Democracy has a greater constituency than any other regime.
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    • 1.The Condorcet jury theorem requires voters to have independent, better-than-random judgments, a condition routinely violated by media homogenization and cascade effects.
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    • 2.When voter competence falls below 0.5, majority rule systematically amplifies error rather than correcting it, inverting the theorem's epistemic promise.
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    • 3.Empirical democratic publics consistently exhibit voter ignorance, motivated reasoning, and heuristic dependence, making the competence threshold assumption descriptively false.
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    • 1.Rousseau and later Habermas distinguish the mere aggregation of private preferences from the general will or communicative rationality required for genuine legitimacy.
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    • 2.Democratic majority outcomes produced by strategic voting, preference falsification, or manufactured consent reflect neither rational consensus nor authentic public deliberation.
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    • 3.Legitimacy requires not just correct outcomes but procedures that express equal moral standing, which majoritarian aggregation can violate when it persistently excludes minorities.
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    Instrumentalist defenses of democracy aim to show that democratic decision-making procedures are best able to produce legitimate outcomes. The most famous version of this argument is based on the Condorcet jury theorem (for a recent discussion, see List and Goodin 2001). In its original formulation, the Condorcet jury theorem assumes that there are two alternatives and one of them is the correct outcome, however defined. Take the latter to be the legitimate outcome. The theorem says that if each
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