majoritarian
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definition
noun
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.
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He is not a moral 'majoritarian' , but he isn't going to be extending the boundaries of personal morality either.
While they have their place, referenda suffer from being overly 'majoritarian' and non-deliberative.
The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is 'majoritarian' supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
The smoking ban is probably the most topical example of a decision that comes near to enforced 'majoritarian' virtue.
American politicians are much more ‘democratic’ from a 'majoritarian' point of view.
A final note: do not misinterpret this criticism as a defense of 'majoritarian' democracy.
Here is T. R. Malthus's reading of Smith which makes it clear that contemporaries regarded Smith as a 'majoritarian' .
Risk taking does not come easily to 'majoritarian' institutions.
If civil liberties are left to popular votes, they can similarly founder on the rocks of 'majoritarian' advantage.
How can 'majoritarian' politics durably sustain policies harmful to majority interests?
If the state's wisdom came from 'majoritarian' prejudices, rather than the expertise of its technocrats, that would take us no further.
The social transition has gone wrong: it is 'majoritarian' absolutism.
The 'majoritarian' says, ‘If you want to know who should prevail in a conflict, take a vote.’
The democracy part implies that those areas of policy requiring collective decision making will reflect 'majoritarian' preferences.
Justice is not to be equated with the law of the state or with simple 'majoritarian' democracy.
Nice to see George spelling out that he's in favour of 'majoritarian' rule rather than democracy.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this at odds with his often stated 'majoritarian' views?
Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, 'majoritarian' democracy could hardly have been said to be in play.
He believes the Greens' values are 'majoritarian' values that can reach across the political spectrum.
What they propose is not really strict construction, but 'majoritarian' tyranny.
It's an insane effort, smacking of 'majoritarian' tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
In fact, academe's characteristic mode of governance magnifies 'majoritarian' power.
Personally, I don't necessarily see such fragmentation as a bad thing, as it acts as a check on 'majoritarian' power.
The lines between 'majoritarianism' , nationalism, and fascism have been defiantly blurred, and quite logically.
Sunstein identifies Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a majoritarian but says there are no consistent 'majoritarians' on today's Supreme Court.
Third, I do not claim that all the Founders were ‘libertarians,’ but (as I discuss in my book but not in this paper) neither were they democratic 'majoritarians' .
This 'majoritarianism' has combined with other features to provide Britain with responsible party government.
Richard concludes his essay with an observation that I wish conservative democratic 'majoritarians' (and their democratic compatriots on the left) would take to heart.
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.
But this libertarian view antagonizes both the diversitarians and the 'majoritarians' more than anything, more even than they antagonize each other.
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