majoritarian
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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.
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The democracy part implies that those areas of policy requiring collective decision making will reflect 'majoritarian' preferences.
He believes the Greens' values are 'majoritarian' values that can reach across the political spectrum.
Here is T. R. Malthus's reading of Smith which makes it clear that contemporaries regarded Smith as a 'majoritarian' .
Nice to see George spelling out that he's in favour of 'majoritarian' rule rather than democracy.
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.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this at odds with his often stated 'majoritarian' views?
It's an insane effort, smacking of 'majoritarian' tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
The smoking ban is probably the most topical example of a decision that comes near to enforced 'majoritarian' virtue.
Risk taking does not come easily to 'majoritarian' institutions.
A final note: do not misinterpret this criticism as a defense of 'majoritarian' democracy.
American politicians are much more ‘democratic’ from a 'majoritarian' point of view.
What they propose is not really strict construction, but 'majoritarian' tyranny.
While they have their place, referenda suffer from being overly 'majoritarian' and non-deliberative.
If civil liberties are left to popular votes, they can similarly founder on the rocks of 'majoritarian' advantage.
Personally, I don't necessarily see such fragmentation as a bad thing, as it acts as a check on 'majoritarian' power.
The 'majoritarian' says, ‘If you want to know who should prevail in a conflict, take a vote.’
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.
He is not a moral 'majoritarian' , but he isn't going to be extending the boundaries of personal morality either.
The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is 'majoritarian' supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
Justice is not to be equated with the law of the state or with simple 'majoritarian' democracy.
In fact, academe's characteristic mode of governance magnifies 'majoritarian' power.
Elections are rarely worth defending, and certainly are not the holy things modern-day 'majoritarians' say they are.
First, the dominant principle of American democracy is not unconstrained 'majoritarianism' .
Admittedly, the moral 'majoritarians' were hard to love (as Richard John Neuhaus fully displays in his ambivalence toward them).
We live in a world in which the people who want the government to be more involved in our lives include moral 'majoritarians' and old New Dealers.
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.
Liberals bash the Hindutva brigade in newspapers and TV channels, the 'majoritarians' bash the rest of us.
Sunstein identifies Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a majoritarian but says there are no consistent 'majoritarians' on today's Supreme Court.
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