:This essay defends deliberative democracy by reviving a largely forgotten idea of corruption, which I call “cognitive corruption”—the distortion of judgment. I analyze different versions of this idea in the work of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Bentham, and Mill. Historical analysis also helps me rethink orthodox notions of corruption in two ways: I define corruption in terms of public duty rather than public office, and I argue that corruption can be both by and for political parties. In deliberative democracy, citizens can take off their party hats and may be more influenced by the force of the better argument than in party democracy.

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认知腐败与协商民主

：这篇文章通过恢复一个很大程度上被遗忘的腐败观念来捍卫协商民主，我称之为“认知腐败”——判断的扭曲。我在马基雅维利、霍布斯、边沁和密尔的著作中分析了这个想法的不同版本。历史分析还帮助我从两个方面重新思考正统的腐败概念：我根据公共职责而不是公职来定义腐败，我认为腐败既可以由政党产生，也可以由政党产生。在协商民主中，公民可以脱掉他们的政党帽子，并且可能比政党民主更受更好论点的影响。