Article: The misguided renaissance of social choice.

Professor Stearns explores the implications of social choice theory and Arrow's Theorem for the Supreme Court and Congress and develops a framework with which to assess social-choice-based normative proposals to expand judicial review and to modify congressional practices. The analysis demonstrates that most such proposals fall Prey to one or more of three analytic errors: (1) the nirvana fallacy, the failure to recognize that Arrow's Theorem Proves that every collective decisionmaking body bears some Arrovian imperfections; (2) the isolation fallacy, the failure to recognize that by working collectively, the institutions under review enhance their rationality; and (3) the ...

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