# Social choice

`kaal:entity:social-choice`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `social-choice`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782203-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-009) [failure/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Condorcet's paradox demonstrates that it is impossible to construct any democratic voting method that will faithfully discover the will of a group, because cyclic preferences can leave no clear winner.
  > Condorcet's paradox5 demonstrates it is impossible to construct any method that will faithfully discover the will of a group, with any type of democratic voting system.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203
- [3782214-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-003) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Every governance process ever implemented is flawed, and no perfect governance system is possible even under very minimal assumptions such as non dictatorship; the goal must therefore be practical and effective structures rather than perfect ones.
  > There are flaws with every governance process that has ever been implemented. In fact, it seems clear no perfect governance system is possible under very minimal assumptions, such as non-dictatorship (cf., Chapter a).
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214

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