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- Offers a critique of binary voting procedures, supported by illustrative case studies
- Suggests all-party power-sharing should replace all forms of single-party or majority coalition majority rule
- Compellingly argues that majority-rule systems tend to promote conflicts and populism
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Book Title: Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism
Book Subtitle: Preferential Decision-making for an Inclusive Democracy
Authors: Peter Emerson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20219-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20218-7Published: 08 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20221-7Published: 08 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20219-4Published: 25 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 227
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Electoral Politics, Democracy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Governance and Government, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies