Examines the history underlying the use of supermajority voting rules and offers a critique of their ability to remedy the defects of majority decision making.
Examines the history underlying the use of supermajority voting rules and offers a critique of their ability to remedy the defects of majority decision making.
Melissa Schwartzberg is an Associate Professor of Politics at New York University. She previously taught at George Washington University and Columbia University. She received her AB from Washington University, St Louis in 1996, and her PhD in 2002 from New York University. She is the author of Democracy and Legal Change (Cambridge, 2007) and of articles in leading journals including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and Political Theory. She is a 2013 recipient of the Mellon New Directions Fellowship. From 2010 to 2013, she served as the co-president of the Association for Political Theory.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction Part I. A Remedy for the Problems of Unanimity: 2. Prelude: acclamation and aggregation in the ancient world 3. Unanimitas to a two-thirds vote: medieval origins of supermajority rule 4. Unanimity and supermajority rule in eighteenth-century France Part II. A Remedy for the Problems of Majority Rule: 5. Equality, majority rule, and supermajorities 6. Constitutionalism without supermajorities 7. Constitutionalism under complex majoritarianism 8. Conclusion.
1. Introduction Part I. A Remedy for the Problems of Unanimity: 2. Prelude: acclamation and aggregation in the ancient world 3. Unanimitas to a two-thirds vote: medieval origins of supermajority rule 4. Unanimity and supermajority rule in eighteenth-century France Part II. A Remedy for the Problems of Majority Rule: 5. Equality, majority rule, and supermajorities 6. Constitutionalism without supermajorities 7. Constitutionalism under complex majoritarianism 8. Conclusion.
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