This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people. Based on the author’s first-hand experience, majority-voting is argued to be a catalyst of populism and its divisive outcomes have prompted countless disputes throughout Europe and Asia. In like manner, simple majority rule is seen as a cause of conflict in war zones, and of dysfunction in so-called stable democracies. In order to safeguard democracy, an all-party power-sharing approach is proposed, which would make populism less attractive to voters and governments alike. In geographically arranged chapters, well-tested alternative voting procedures (e. g. non-majoritarian Modified Borda Count) are presented in case studies of Northern Ireland, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia, China, North Korea and Mongolia.
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Decision-making in Parliaments and Referendums.- Parliamentary and Presidential Elections.- Governance: From Power-dividing to Power-sharing.- Majority Voting in Belfast, Dublin and London.- Continental Europe – Are We All Little Bolshevik?.- Asia, Where Voting was Invented.- Majoritarian Democracy – the Catalyst of Populism.关于作者
Peter Emerson is the director of the Belfast-based international NGO ‘The de Borda Institute’. He has campaigned for inclusive governance since 1978. His publications includeFrom Majority Rule to Inclusive Politics (Springer, 2016),
Defining Democracy: Voting Procedures in Decision-Making, Elections and Governance (2nd ed. in 2012, Springer) and
Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy: Consensual Voting Procedures for Use in Parliaments, Councils and Committees (Springer, 2007).
语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 227 ● ISBN 9783030202194 ● 文件大小 8.2 MB ● 出版者 Springer International Publishing ● 市 Cham ● 国家 CH ● 发布时间 2019 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7194587 ● 复制保护 社会DRM