Демократија и рационалност
Democracy and Rationality

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the basic assumptions and the results of rational choice theory on the individual and group level, as well as the inherent problems the theory faces. If we understand democracy as a procedure (or method of aggregation of given individual preferences), which has to meet certain requirements of rationality and morality, it turns out that we can not formulate such a method of group choice. Relying on this concept of aggregative democracy, Kenneth Arrow performs deductive proof of the impossibility of social democratic choice. Afterwards, we point out some difficulties faced by this concept of democracy, as well as possible ways to overcome them. The last part is dedicated to the concept of deliberative democracy, which occurs as a response to the problems of aggregative concept.

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