majoritarian
গরিষ্ঠতামূলকভাবে
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Richard concludes his essay with an observation that I wish conservative democratic majoritarians (and their democratic compatriots on the left) would take to heart.
a person who is governed by or believes in decision by a majority.
adjective
The democracy part implies that those areas of policy requiring collective decision making will reflect majoritarian preferences.
governed by or believing in decision by a majority.
example
The smoking ban is probably the most topical example of a decision that comes near to enforced 'majoritarian' virtue.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this at odds with his often stated 'majoritarian' views?
Personally, I don't necessarily see such fragmentation as a bad thing, as it acts as a check on 'majoritarian' power.
American politicians are much more ‘democratic’ from a 'majoritarian' point of view.
It's an insane effort, smacking of 'majoritarian' tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
The social transition has gone wrong: it is 'majoritarian' absolutism.
Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, 'majoritarian' democracy could hardly have been said to be in play.
Risk taking does not come easily to 'majoritarian' institutions.
Here is T. R. Malthus's reading of Smith which makes it clear that contemporaries regarded Smith as a 'majoritarian' .
The democracy part implies that those areas of policy requiring collective decision making will reflect 'majoritarian' preferences.
How can 'majoritarian' politics durably sustain policies harmful to majority interests?
He believes the Greens' values are 'majoritarian' values that can reach across the political spectrum.
If the state's wisdom came from 'majoritarian' prejudices, rather than the expertise of its technocrats, that would take us no further.
While they have their place, referenda suffer from being overly 'majoritarian' and non-deliberative.
In fact, academe's characteristic mode of governance magnifies 'majoritarian' power.
If civil liberties are left to popular votes, they can similarly founder on the rocks of 'majoritarian' advantage.
He is not a moral 'majoritarian' , but he isn't going to be extending the boundaries of personal morality either.
The 'majoritarian' says, ‘If you want to know who should prevail in a conflict, take a vote.’
A final note: do not misinterpret this criticism as a defense of 'majoritarian' democracy.
Justice is not to be equated with the law of the state or with simple 'majoritarian' democracy.
What they propose is not really strict construction, but 'majoritarian' tyranny.
The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is 'majoritarian' supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
Nice to see George spelling out that he's in favour of 'majoritarian' rule rather than democracy.
Sunstein identifies Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a majoritarian but says there are no consistent 'majoritarians' on today's Supreme Court.
It has been an important test of the Scottish parliament, from which it has emerged battered but intact after a challenge to its legitimacy from the moral 'majoritarians' .
Still, there is a distinction to be made between majority rule and 'majoritarianism' .
Ardent 'majoritarians' may be scandalized by the fact that 51 senators from the least populous states, representing just 17 percent of the nation's population, could defeat a bill.
Some liberals have been 'majoritarians' with a limited concern for the rights of minorities; some conservatives have been valiant defenders of the liberties of conscience and expression.
First, the dominant principle of American democracy is not unconstrained 'majoritarianism' .
The lines between 'majoritarianism' , nationalism, and fascism have been defiantly blurred, and quite logically.
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