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Nov 10, 2008 · Virtually all sophisticated approaches to democratic theory do not simply equal democracy with majoritarianism, although this is often forgotten when discussing judicial review.
- Scott E Lemieux, David J Watkins
- 2009
Jun 1, 2021 · While a demand to treat persons as equal sources of value (the “equal value demand”) underlies pluralist democracy's generally democratic conception of legitimate politics, the possibility of value pluralism demands majoritarian and iterative democratic procedures.
- T.J.H. Theuns
- 2021
Feb 25, 2015 · As with democracy, we see here a characteristic methodological move. Dahl called on terms with long histories of often discordant popular usage and brisked them up for deployment in the social sciences.
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Jun 1, 2022 · It appears that we are on the cusp of a more peculiar democratic transformation: an age of despotic majoritarianism, in which citizens are increasingly excluded from political life, while elected officials simultaneously claim more power in their name.
- Benjamin Abrams
May 27, 2020 · Majority rule and compromise are both core elements of democratic politics: democracy would mean little without the majoritarian principle and compromise is required in pluralistic societies rife with fundamental moral and political disagreement.
- Patrick Overeem
- p.overeem@vu.nl
- 2020
Those living in majoritarian systems are more likely to think that the best model of democracy is one in which government power is concentrated in the hands of the majority, while those living in more consensual systems are likely to express a stronger preference for coalition governments.
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May 20, 2021 · The chapter further explores how the non-fulfilment of the empirical expressions of these principles, clear-cut parliamentary majorities and regular government turnovers, leads to the potential undermining of political order in majoritarian democracies. Download chapter PDF.
