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February 22 - Anton Pelinka

Imperfect Information –
Prerequisite for Imperfect Democracy

  • February 22, 2010, 6:15 p.m.
  • Anton Pelinka: Central European University, Budapest; Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna



Democracy builds on the assumption of informed citizens. This assumption, however, corresponds only partly to reality: information is distributed extremely unequally, because the interest in and access to information are unequally distributed – this happens also and particularly in the so-called information society.

Through this an imbalance has evolved between "insiders" and "outsiders", between "opinion leaders", "opinion makers" and "opinion receivers". This imbalance is in a dynamic relationship with the principle of political equality, which expresses itself in the same voting rights for everyone. Dealing rationally with this – unavoidable – imbalance is a permanent challenge for every democracy.

Presenter: Matthias Karmasin, ÖAW, University of Klagenfurt


Eröffnung Sigrid Jalkotzy-Deger

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Eröffnung Hannes Ametsreiter

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Vortrag Anton Pelinka

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