Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy Consensual Voting Procedures For Use in Parliaments, Councils and Committees /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Emerson, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Political science.; Microeconomics.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.

Democracy is for everybody, not just a majority. This book describes the voting procedures by which majority rule may be replaced by a more consensual system of governance. In a word, such an inclusive polity can be achieved by asking the voters or, more usually, their representatives in councils an...

Table of Contents:

• Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy
• Collective Decision-making The Modified Borda Count, MBC
• A Pluralist Parliament for a Plural Society The Quota Borda System, QBS
• Electing a Power-sharing Executive The Matrix Vote
• The Art or Science of Manipulation
• A Critique
• The Theory of Voting and the Borda Systems
• Assessing Borda’s Rule and Its Modifications
• Human Rights and Voting Procedures in Plural Societies
• Inclusive Decision-making in Mediation and Politics
• Conclusion
• The Realpolitik of Consensus Voting Peter Emerson with Assistance from Elizabeth Meehan.