Web-enabled strategic GDSS, e-democracy and Arrow's theorem: A Bayesian perspective

Simon French

doi:10.1016/j.dss.2006.06.003

Web-enabled strategic GDSS, e-democracy and Arrow's theorem: A Bayesian perspective

Simon French

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Abstract

Web-technologies bring the possibility of supporting geographically and temporally dispersed decision making. However, although technically feasible, it is not clear that there are valid methodologies for the use of web-based group decision support (wGDSS). Many approaches to decision support are driven by the perspective of a single decision maker. Yet there are many reasons to expect that the extension of individualistic theories to a group context will be fraught with difficulty. This paper explores these issues and considers the way forward for the design and use of wGDSS and for a more substantive approach to participative e-democracy. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1476-1484
Number of pages	8
Journal	Decision Support Systems
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2006.06.003
Publication status	Published - Aug 2007

Keywords

Arrow's impossibility theorem
e-democracy
Group decision support systems (GDSS)
Procedural and substantive democracy
Societal decisions
The Bayesian paradigm

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Web-enabled strategic GDSS, e-democracy and Arrow's theorem: A Bayesian perspective

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UN SDGs

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