Effects of local communication and spatial position in a collective decision-making model

"Instead of considering »being with« in terms of non-problematic, machine-like places, where reliable entities assemble in stable relationships, STS conjures up a world where the achievement of chancy stabilisations and synchronisations is local.We have to analyse how and where a certain regularity and predictability in the intersection of scientists and their instruments, say, or of human individuals and groups, is produced.The paper reviews models of emergence drawn from the history of cybernetics—the canonical »black box,« homeostats, and cellular automata—to enrich our imagination of the stabilisation process, and discusses the concept of »variety« as a way of clarifying its difficulty, with the antiuniversities of the 1960s and the Occupy movement as examples. Failures of »being with« are expectable. In conclusion, the paper reviews approaches to collective decision-making that reduce variety without imposing a neoliberal hierarchy. "

Faculty Opinions recommendation of Rational time investment during collective decision making in Temnothorax ants.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.736763910.793575286 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ben Hayden

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Collective Decision Making ◽

Time Investment

Efficient Collective Decision-Making, Marginal Cost Pricing, And Quadratic Voting

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2836610 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

T. Nicolaus Tideman ◽

Florenz Plassmann

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Marginal Cost ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Collective Decision Making ◽

Marginal Cost Pricing

Corruption and Anticorruption in Democratic Athens

10.1093/oso/9780198809975.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Claire Taylor

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Participatory Democracy ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Civic Culture ◽

Collective Decision Making ◽

Alexander The Great ◽

Political Equality ◽

Individual Judgment ◽

Collective Judgment ◽

Hidden Knowledge

The chapter examines a major corruption scandal that involved the Athenian orator Demosthenes and an official of Alexander the Great. This episode reveals how tensions between individual and collective decision-making practices shaped Athenian understandings of corruption and anticorruption. The various and multiple anticorruption measures of Athens sought to bring ‘hidden’ knowledge into the open and thereby remove information from the realm of individual judgment, placing it instead into the realm of collective judgment. The Athenian experience therefore suggests that participatory democracy, and a civic culture that fosters political equality rather than reliance on individual expertise, provides a key bulwark against corruption.

Collective Decision Making in Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Mill

Ethics ◽

10.1086/291745 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 80 (1) ◽

pp. 21-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

C. Dyke

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Collective Decision Making

Collective Decision Making: Applications from Public Choice Theory. Clifford S. Russell

Ethics ◽

10.1086/292313 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 92 (1) ◽

pp. 164-165

Author(s):

John Aldrich

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Public Choice ◽

Choice Theory ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Collective Decision Making ◽

Public Choice Theory

‘Choice’ in collective decision-making processes: Instrumental or expressive approval?

The Journal of Socio-Economics ◽

10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.020 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 102-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Philip Jones ◽

Peter Dawson

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Collective Decision Making ◽

Decision Making Processes

Collective Decision-making: FIFA from the Perspective of Public Choice

The Economists Voice ◽

10.1515/ev-2019-0031 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Florian Follert ◽

Lukas Richau ◽

Eike Emrich ◽

Christian Pierdzioch

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Public Choice ◽

Choice Theory ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Public Confidence ◽

Collective Decision Making ◽

Public Choice Theory ◽

World Cup ◽

The World ◽

Selection Of

AbstractVarious scandals have shaken public confidence in football's global governing body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). It is evident that decision-making within such a collective provides incentives for corruption. We apply the Buchanan-Tullock model that is known from Public Choice theory to study collective decision-making within FIFA. On the basis of this theoretical model, we develop specific proposals that can contribute to combating corruption. Three core aspects are discussed: the selection of the World Cup host, transparency in the allocation of budgets, and clear guidelines for FIFA officials and bodies with regard to their rights and accountability. Our insights can contribute to a better understanding of collective decision making in heterogenous groups.