scholarly journals The tyranny of the majority and the interchangeability of drugs

2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Stahl
Keyword(s):  
Tyranny Of The Majority

Tocqueville's Tyranny of the Majority Reconsidered

2002 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 741-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Maletz
Keyword(s):  
Tyranny Of The Majority

The Political Saturation of Social Space

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-94
Author(s):  
Robert B. Talisse
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Tyranny Of The Majority

This chapter begins to develop the book’s diagnostic argument. Overdoing democracy is partly the result of a widespread social phenomenon identified as the political saturation of social space. Politics has permeated our lives enough to guide where we shop, what we wear, even what we drink (Starbucks latte versus Dunkin’ Donuts coffee). Our social spaces are increasingly sorted and segregated according to our political allegiances, while our political allegiances are increasingly constitutive of our broader social identities. The result is that we are more than ever enacting democratic citizenship, but almost always under conditions that are themselves politically homogeneous. Until citizens are open to each other’s arguments, we cannot plausibly see democratic political rule as consistent with each citizens’ status as an equal, and thus more than merely the tyranny of the majority.

scholarly journals The Democratic Federalist System

Federalism-E ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
William Ye
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Tyranny Of The Majority

This paper will explore the dimensions of federalism and democracy, in which it will become apparent, that the two are intertwined. As will be explored, federalism enhances the principles of democracy by creating accountable governments, increasing political participation, and protects against the tyranny of the majority. Federalism enhances democracy and thus, goes hand in hand.

Limits of Electoral Equality and Political Representation

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Chryssogonos ◽  
Costas Stratilatis
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Normative Standards ◽  
Tyranny Of The Majority

Constitutional limits to the discretion of the legislature in forming the electoral system — Political equality — Equal suffrage — Equal opportunities for political parties — Free expression of popular will — Functionality of the parliament — Concrete normative standards for assessing the constitutionality of an electoral system — Conception of parliamentary democracy emphasising representation of political minorities and protection from ‘tyranny of the majority’

Tocqueville, Burke, and the Origins of Liberal Conservatism

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford Lakoff
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Michael Oakeshott ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
Tyranny Of The Majority

Alexis de Tocqueville is not easily characterized as either a liberal or a conservative. In this respect he resembles Edmund Burke. Both may be best understood as “liberal conservatives”—figures who straddled both camps. On a number of specific dimensions, including their attitudes toward aristocracy, colonialism, property, rationalism, the tyranny of the majority, pluralism, and the meaning of history, they are remarkably similar. Their thinking foreshadows the rapprochement between liberals and conservatives in the latter half of the twentieth century reflected in the prominence of right-of-center parties and leaders and in the work of such political thinkers as Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott.

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