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    Challenges→Democratic procedures cannot be intrinsically fair.

    No general rule satisfying reasonable constraints can be devised that transforms any set of individual preferences into a rational social preference (Arrow's impossibility result).

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    Arrow's impossibility result(as used in social choice theory and political philosophy)
    A famous mathematical proof by economist Kenneth Arrow showing that it's impossible to create a fair voting system that perfectly combines everyone's individual preferences into one group decision while following reasonable fairness rules.
    Individual preferences(as used in decision theory and economics)
    What each person personally wants or likes.
    Kenneth Arrow(as a key historical figure in social choice theory)
    An influential 20th-century economist who proved that no perfect voting system exists, which became one of the most important findings in how we think about democracy and group decisions.

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    Reasonable constraints(as the conditions Arrow's theorem applies to)
    Fair and sensible rules that we think any good voting or decision-making system should follow, such as respecting everyone's votes equally or not rigging the outcome in favor of one person.
    social preference(used in political philosophy and economics)
    What a group or society should prefer or choose, based on combining all the individual people's preferences.

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    Other arguments question the coherence of the idea of intrinsically fair collective decision making processes. For instance, social choice theory questions the idea that there can be a fair decision making function that transforms a set of individual preferences into a rational collective preference. The core objection is that no general rule satisfying reasonable constraints can be devised that can transform any set of individual preferences into a rational social preference. And this is taken

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