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Counting the Many

Paperback • 2014 • English

Counting the Many : The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule

By Melissa Schwartzberg

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About the book

Les mindre Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal legislatures to constitutional amendments. It is usually assumed that these rules are not only normatively unproblematic but necessary to achieve the goals of institutional stability, consensus, and minority protections. In this book, Melissa Schwartzberg challenges the logic underlying the ...Show more

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9780521124492

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Counting the Many

Format

Paperback

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