![]() The essential idea is that democratic governance should represent and give power to the people not partwise but generally or overall. ![]() This has been known for ages, but majoritarianism is the only view of democratic governance that one can always count on being accepted by people.Ī more plausible account of how democratic governance and majorities should relate has no name, as far as I know, so I will just call it democratic generalism. But there are many problems with it, not least in that, if the point of democratic governance is to represent and give power to the people, bare majority dominance does not do this well at all. And people in majorities tend to assume that this is the way things should work, no matter how many times they've been burned by it when they were in the minority. It's so common that people slip into it without even thinking about it. The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way Ī common view about the relation between democratic governance and majorities is majoritarianism, which is that democratic governance occurs when decisions are made by the majority. Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal, So secret that the very sky seems small. Wells has found that children play,Īnd Bernard Shaw discovered that they squall Īnd through thick woods one finds a stream astray, ![]() ![]() That mushrooms could be cooked another way -Īnd H.G. Perhaps the rector's mother will NOT call. My uncle's sword is hanging in the hall. As one that knots his necktie for a ball īut just as all the neighbours - on the wall-Īre drawing a long breath to shout "Hurray!" ![]()
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