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Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism

Preferential Decision-making for an Inclusive Democracy

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people. Based on the author's first-hand experience, majority-voting is argued to be a catalyst of populism and its divisive outcomes have prompted countless disputes throughout Europe and Asia. In like manner, simple majority rule is seen as a cause of conflict in war zones, and of dysfunction in so-called stable democracies. In order to safeguard democracy, an all-party power-sharing approach is proposed, which would make populism less attractive to voters and governments alike. In geographically arranged chapters, well-tested alternative voting procedures (e. g. non-majoritarian Modified Borda Count) are presented in case studies of Northern Ireland, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia, China, North Korea and Mongolia.   weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-20218-7 / 978-3030202187 / 9783030202187

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2019

Seiten: 227

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Peter Emerson

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