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Cristian Rivera

@cristiar.bsky.social
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PhD @ Cambridge POLIS; Political Theory; History of Political Thought

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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PhD candidate Cristian Rivera’s recent paper presents a compelling way out of the discursive dilemma—showing that we don’t have to choose between responsiveness and coherence in collective decision-making. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Majoritarian democracy without the discursive dilemma
The discursive dilemma maintains that incoherent collective judgments can result from the aggregation of coherent individual judgments on logically connected propositions. For democratic theory, th...
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Cristian Rivera @cristiar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My new article in CRISPP. (Open Access) The article draws on alternative judgment aggregation methods to argue that majoritarianism can be reasonable and coherent, contra well-known anti-majoritarian arguments inspired by the discursive dilemma. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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