Majority Decisions: Principles and Practices
Stéphanie Novak, Jon Elster - Cambridge University Press, 30 giu 2014 - 258 pagine
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| Anteprima |
This
book presents the most complete set of analytical, normative, and
historical discussions of majority decision making to date. One chapter
critically addresses the social-choice approach to majority decisions,
whereas another presents an alternative to that approach. Extensive case
studies discuss majority voting in the choice of religion in early
modern Switzerland, majority voting in nested assemblies such as the
French Estates-General and the Federal Convention, majority voting in
federally organized countries, qualified majority voting in the European
Union Council of Ministers, and majority voting on juries. Other
chapters address the relation between majority decisions and cognitive
diversity, the causal origin of majority decisions, and the pathologies
of majority decision making. Two chapters, finally, discuss the
counter-majoritarian role of courts that exercise judicial review. The
editorial Introduction surveys conceptual, causal, and normative issues
that arise in the theory and practice of majority decisions.
