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  title info:
    title: Majority decisions
    sub title: principles and practices
  name:
    name part: Novak, Stéphanie
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Elster, Jon
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "This book presents the most complete set of analytical, normative, and historical discussions of majority decision making to date. One chapter critically addresses the social-choice approach to majority decisions, whereas another presents an alternative to that approach. Extensive case studies discuss majority voting in the choice of religion in early modern Switzerland, majority voting in nested assemblies such as the French Estates-General and the Federal Convention, majority voting in federally organized countries, qualified majority voting in the European Union Council of Ministers, and majority voting on juries. Other chapters address the relation between majority decisions and cognitive diversity, the causal origin of majority decisions, and the pathologies of majority decision making. Two chapters, finally, discuss the counter-majoritarian role of courts that exercise judicial review. The editorial Introduction surveys conceptual, causal, and normative issues that arise in the theory and practice of majority decisions"--
  table of contents: Putting faith to the ballot -- Nested majorities -- The issue of majority in a federal system: Constituent power and amendment of the federal compact -- The reception of social choice theory by democratic theory -- What should "majority decision" mean? -- The force of majority rule -- Tyranny and brutality of the majority -- Two effects of a high threshold of qualified majority -- Democracy, judgment, and juries -- Majority rules in constitutional democracies: Some remarks about theory and practice -- The majoritarian threat to democracy: Constitutional courts and the democratic pact.
  note: edited by Stéphanie Novak, Jon Elster.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Majorities
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Voting
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Judicial review
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Process
    topic: Elections
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Process
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Judicial review
  subject:
    topic: Majorities
  subject:
    topic: Voting
  classification: JF1051 .M24 2014eb
  classification: 324.9
  classification: POL010000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Majority decisions
    identifier: (DLC) 2013048027
    identifier: (OCoLC)869269467
  identifier: 9781139922937
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  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 140630
    record change date: 20250816205821.3
    record identifier: in00003527034
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng