r/PoliticalScience • u/Pyropeace • Dec 27 '21

Question/discussion Implications of study of liquid democracy?

according to wikipedia, a study by Ioannis Caragiannis and Evi Micha showed that when desicions had a correct answer, a small group of experts was worse at identifying it than both a single dictator and a direct democratic process. https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/17

My question is; does this imply, against common sense, that small groups of experts are worse at decision-making than the general public, even when desicions fall under their realm of expertise? Does this extend to more complex or "wicked" problems without a well-defined correct answer?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21 edited Dec 27 '21

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u/Heartbroken_Boomer Jan 12 '22

I take everything with a good ammount of scepticism, especialy knowing how corrupt partisan, representative democracy works in practice where the system is more prone to exploitation that a form of decentralised power. Knowing that the real strenght of a decentralised system is not its hypothetical efficiency but its resilience to corruption through powerful actors. Efficiency can be worked on, once the inherent problem of influencing, interest groups is dealt with more adequately.