Counting the many: the origins and limits of supermajority rule (Record no. 181919)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780521124492
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 324.63
Item number S2C6
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Schwartzberg, Melissa
9 (RLIN) 271493
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Counting the many: the origins and limits of supermajority rule
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiv, 237 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code USD
Price amount 29.99
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Cambridge Series in The Theory of Democracy
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Majorities - Cross-cultural studies
9 (RLIN) 271470
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies
9 (RLIN) 271471
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Constitutional law - Cross-cultural studies
9 (RLIN) 271472
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Democracy - Cross-cultural studies
9 (RLIN) 271473
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        Non-fiction Vikram Sarabhai Library Vikram Sarabhai Library General Stacks 14/03/2014 12 1573.88 Rack 14-A / Slot 507 (0 Floor, West Wing)   324.63 S2C6 181637 14/03/2014 1967.34 12/03/2014 Books