Majority Decisions

Principles and Practices
Herausgeber: Novak, Stéphanie; Elster, Jon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the most complete set of analytical, normative, and historical discussions of majority decision making to date.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781107054097
• ISBN-10: 1107054095
• Artikelnr.: 40562134

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Stéphanie Novak and Jon Elster
2. Putting faith to the ballot Olivier Christin
3. Nested majorities Jon Elster
4. The issue of majority in a federal system: constituent power and amendment of the federal compact Olivier Beaud
5. The reception of social choice theory by democratic theory Gerry Mackie
6. What should 'majority decision' mean? Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki
7. The force of majority rule Adrian Vermeule
8. The tyranny and brutality of majority rule Jon Elster
9. Two effects of a high threshold of qualified majority Stéphanie Novak
10. Democracy, judgment, and juries Melissa Schwartzberg
11. Majority rule in constitutional democracies Pasquale Pasquino
12. The majoritarian threat to democracy: constitutional courts and the democratic pact Samuel Issacharoff.