[EM] [OT] Kenneth Arrow theory... anyone?

[Markus Schulze]

Dear David,

you wrote (21 Nov 2003):
> [[Do you know that a multi-cultural society cannot be democratic?
> The Nobel Prize Kenneth Arrow mathematically showed, in 1952, that
> there was no possible democracy via a voting system (theorem of
> impossibility), except if the voters share the same culture and
> close values (Nobel Prize Amartya SEN)]]

At least here in Germany, the theorem that democracy is possible
only in a very homogeneous society with a national consensus
on every important question is usually ascribed to Alexis de
Tocqueville.

Markus Schulze