Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy

Download or read book Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy written by Peter Emerson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and parliaments, to state their preferences, so to facilitate the identification of that option which gains the highest average preference score.