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    Recommended Citation:

    Elster, Jon (2013) Excessive Ambitions (II), Capitalism and Society: Vol. 8 : Iss. 1, Article 1.

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    Following an earlier article criticizing excessive uses of rational-choice modeling andstatistical analyses in the social sciences, the present article argues that much ofnormative political theory, notably many theories of optimal institutional design, alsosuffer from various forms of overreaching. It is argued that both attempts to design democraticinstitutions that will track independently defined good outcomes and attempts to choosegood democratic decision-makers are bound to fail. e article also presents a positive

    alternative, inspired by Jeremy Benthams Political Tactics: institutional designers shouldreduce as much as possible the impact of self-interest, emotion, prejudice and cognitive bias on thedecision-makers, and then let the chips fall where they may.

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