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Towards a New Democracy: Consensus Through Quantum Parliament

Diederik Aerts

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Abstract

We compare different actual forms of democracy and analyse in which way they are variations of a 'natural consensus decision process'. We analyse how 'consensus decision followed by majority voting' is open to 'false play' by the majority, and investigate how other types of false play appear in alternative types of democratic decision procedures. We introduce the combined notion of 'quantum parliament' and 'quantum decision procedure', and prove it to be the only one, when applied after consensus decision, that is immune to false play.

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12 pages
Journal reference
In D. Aerts, B. D'Hooghe and N. Note (Eds.), Worldviews, Science and Us, Redemarcating Knowledge and its Social and Ethical Implications. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.
DOI
doi:10.1142/9789812702043_0011
Subjects
physics.soc-phPhysics and Society

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    • > In fact other systems actually encourage cooperation and favor candidates that are more in the center. Actually, single-round winner-take-all democracy induces a race toward the middle, not polarization. (If everyone is aligned on a 1D spectrum and votes for the candidate…

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