Deliberative lies

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    Abstract

    Deliberative democrats enjoin participants in ideal speech situations never to lie. But game theorists show that people can have purely truth-based motives for strategically misrepresenting information they hold privately when they are deliberating with others. If deliberative democrats want to ensure that every participant in the deliberation fully and truthfully reveals to one another all private information that they hold, that sets some stringent requirements for the nature of the group that deliberates together.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)194-198
    Number of pages5
    JournalEuropean Political Science
    Volume7
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2008

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