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Women --- Women political candidates --- Women and democracy --- Representative government and representation --- Political activity --- Cross-cultural studies --- Government policy --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Women - Political activity - Cross-cultural studies --- Women political candidates - Government policy - Cross-cultural studies --- Women and democracy - Cross-cultural studies --- Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies
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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 use of supermajority rule as an alternative to majority decision making. She traces the hidden history of supermajority decision making, which originally emerged as an alternative to unanimous rule, and highlights the tensions in the contemporary use of supermajority rules as an alternative to majority rule. Although supermajority rules ostensibly aim to reduce the purported risks associated with majority decision making, they do so at the cost of introducing new liabilities associated with the biased judgments they generate and secure.
Majorities --- Representative government and representation --- Constitutional law --- Democracy --- Constitutional limitations --- Constitutionalism --- Constitutions --- Limitations, Constitutional --- Public law --- Administrative law --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Political science --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Voting --- Minorities --- Interpretation and construction --- Majorities - Cross-cultural studies --- Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies --- Constitutional law - Cross-cultural studies --- Democracy - Cross-cultural studies
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Representative government and representation --- Elections --- Minorities --- Women --- Political activity --- #SBIB:324H42 --- #SBIB:316.346H20 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- 324 --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Verkiezingen --algemeen --- 324 Verkiezingen --algemeen --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Political science --- Democracy --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Politics, Practical --- Political campaigns --- Cross-cultural studies --- Women in politics --- Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies. --- Elections - Cross-cultural studies. --- Minorities - Political activity - Cross-cultural studies. --- Women in politics - Cross-cultural studies. --- Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies --- Elections - Cross-cultural studies --- Minorities - Political activity - Cross-cultural studies --- Women - Political activity - Cross-cultural studies
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'Deliberative politics' refers to the role of conversation and arguments in politics. Until recently discussion of deliberative politics took place almost exclusively among political philosophers, but many questions raised in this philosophical discussion cry out for empirical investigation. This book provides the first extended empirical study of deliberative politics, addressing, in particular, questions of the preconditions and consequences of high level deliberation. Using parliamentary debates in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as an empirical base, the authors measure the level of deliberation by constructing a 'Discourse Quality Index'. As deliberative politics moves to the forefront of political theory, this book makes an important contribution to deliberative democracy.
Communication in politics --- Discourse analysis --- Representative government and representation --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Political science --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Political communication --- Political aspects --- #SBIB:054.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:309H270 --- #SBIB:309H511 --- #SBIB:32H3 --- Politieke communicatie: algemene werken --- Verbale communicatie: algemene pragmatiek, stilistiek en teksttheorie, discoursanalyse --- Politieke wetenschappen: inleidende werken, handboeken, methoden --- Political aspects. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Communication in politics - Cross-cultural studies --- Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies --- Discourse analysis - Political aspects
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Political systems --- Political sociology --- Legislators --- Representative government and representation --- Parlementaires --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Cross-cultural studies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Etudes transculturelles --- #SBIB:324H42 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- BPB1502 --- Parlement --- Représentation politique --- Démocratie représentative --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Politieke vertegenwoordiging --- Representatieve democratie --- Gouvernement représentatif --- repræsentativt demokrati --- predstavnička demokracija --- netiešā demokrātija --- zastupitelská demokracie --- esindusdemokraatia --- претставничка демократија --- democracia representativa --- democrazia rappresentativa --- zastupiteľská demokracia --- predstavniška demokracija --- repräsentative Demokratie --- αντιπροσωπευτική δημοκρατία --- democrație reprezentativă --- representatieve democratie --- demokracja przedstawicielska --- representative democracy --- representativ demokrati --- edustuksellinen demokratia --- demokraci përfaqësuese --- képviseleti demokrácia --- daonlathas ionadaíoch --- представителна демокрация --- atstovaujamoji demokratija --- представничка демократија --- demokrazija rappreżentattiva --- reprezentativna demokracija --- parlamentaarne demokraatia --- demokracja pośrednia --- démocratie indirecte --- democrazia indiretta --- parlamentaarinen demokratia --- parlamentinė demokratija --- démocratie parlementaire --- индиректна демократија --- parlamentáris demokrácia --- posredna demokracija --- έμμεση δημοκρατία --- democracia parlamentar --- demokracja parlamentarna --- democracia parlamentaria --- democrazia parlamentare --- parlamentarna demokracija --- parlementarisk demokrati --- democracia indireta --- indirekt demokrati --- parlementaire democratie --- indirekte Demokratie --- parlamentāra demokrātija --- parlamentarische Demokratie --- репрезентативна демократија --- democrație indirectă --- посредна демократија --- парламентарна демокрация --- indirect democracy --- közvetett demokrácia --- democrație parlamentară --- demokrazija parlamentari --- mittelbare Demokratie --- democracia indirecta --- parlamentarisk demokrati --- indirecte democratie --- demokraci parlamentare --- κοινοβουλευτική δημοκρατία --- netiesioginė demokratija --- parlamentná demokracia --- välillinen demokratia --- indirekte demokrati --- parlamentní demokracie --- demokrazija indiretta --- парламентарна демократија --- nepriama demokracia --- demokraci e tërthortë --- nepřímá demokracie --- parliamentary democracy --- непряка демокрация --- reprezentacja polityczna --- politikai képviselet --- politisk representation --- poliitiline esindus --- politiskā pārstāvība --- reprezentare politică --- politinis atstovavimas --- politisk repræsentation --- politično predstavništvo --- political representation --- πολιτική εκπροσώπηση --- representación política --- политичко заступање --- политичка застапеност --- politická reprezentace --- përfaqësim politik --- politieke vertegenwoordiging --- politická reprezentácia --- politische Vertretung --- rappreżentanza politika --- representação política --- poliittinen edustus --- rappresentanza politica --- политическо представяне --- političko zastupanje --- politické zastoupení --- parlaments --- Parlament --- Parlamento --- parlament --- parliament --- kansanedustuslaitos --- κοινοβούλιο --- assembleia --- парламент --- parlement --- parlamentas --- parlamento --- rigsdag --- собрание --- zastupitelský sbor --- Országgyűlés --- ionadaíocht pholaitiúil --- parlaimint --- Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies --- Démocratie représentative --- Représentation politique
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