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.
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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.
What they propose is not really strict construction, but 'majoritarian' tyranny.
Risk taking does not come easily to 'majoritarian' institutions.
The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is 'majoritarian' supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
The 'majoritarian' says, ‘If you want to know who should prevail in a conflict, take a vote.’
Personally, I don't necessarily see such fragmentation as a bad thing, as it acts as a check on 'majoritarian' power.
If civil liberties are left to popular votes, they can similarly founder on the rocks of 'majoritarian' advantage.
It's an insane effort, smacking of 'majoritarian' tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
Here is T. R. Malthus's reading of Smith which makes it clear that contemporaries regarded Smith as a 'majoritarian' .
American politicians are much more ‘democratic’ from a 'majoritarian' point of view.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this at odds with his often stated 'majoritarian' views?
The social transition has gone wrong: it is 'majoritarian' absolutism.
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.
In fact, academe's characteristic mode of governance magnifies 'majoritarian' power.
He is not a moral 'majoritarian' , but he isn't going to be extending the boundaries of personal morality either.
Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, 'majoritarian' democracy could hardly have been said to be in play.
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.
Nice to see George spelling out that he's in favour of 'majoritarian' rule rather than democracy.
While they have their place, referenda suffer from being overly 'majoritarian' and non-deliberative.
The smoking ban is probably the most topical example of a decision that comes near to enforced 'majoritarian' virtue.
How can 'majoritarian' politics durably sustain policies harmful to majority interests?
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.
It is a measure of Dworkin's success that moral 'majoritarians' are now more likely to speak in neutral terms of ‘disempowerment’ and ‘oppression’ than in subjective terms such as ‘disgust’.
Still, there is a distinction to be made between majority rule and 'majoritarianism' .
Sunstein insists there are four categories: 'majoritarians' , perfectionists, minimalists and fundamentalists.
This 'majoritarianism' has combined with other features to provide Britain with responsible party government.
Elections are rarely worth defending, and certainly are not the holy things modern-day 'majoritarians' say they are.
The tyranny of 'majoritarianism' had already held them in its stranglehold ever since the dawn of freedom.
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