Social optimum: part II: Legitimacy versus effectiveness in collective decisions
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Management - Year 2011, Vol 10, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper develops further our earlier analysis of the Pareto multi-agent problematique concerning collective choice situations where members of a group, community or society are faced with alternative allocations, institutional arrangements, or states of the world and may collectively choose an option if they can agree on the choice. Our reconceptualisation of the Pareto problematique is based on a general principle of “legitimation of collective choice”; such collective choices have a high likelihood of being accepted by a substantial part of society or by key relevant agents (including government agencies, businesses, NGOs, etc) in the population. But such legitimized choices need not be best or right. Consequently, effective choices – whether legitimate or not – require the application of relevant knowledge (often multiple types of knowledge). This paper identifies and analyses governance structures and procedures which bring systematic knowledge to bear on selected problem(s), for instance, scientific knowledge, legal knowledge, and local practical knowledge. Many contemporary forms of collective decision-making entail mobilising and applying expertise such as technical, economic, organisational, legal, cultural knowledge and combining it with legitimizing procedures to gain acceptance of the collective decisions and, thereby, accomplish societal equilibria.
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Tom Burns, Ewa Roszkowska
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