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    It is not the case that Democracy is best able to generate legitimate outcomes among political regimes.

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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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    • 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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