Special Majorities Rationalized
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Special Majorities Rationalized
Complaints are common about the arbitrary and conservative bias of special-majority rules. Such complaints, however, apply to asymmetrical versions of those rules alone. Symmetrical special-majority rules remedy that defect, albeit at the cost of often rendering no determinate verdict. Here what is formally at stake, both procedurally and epistemically, is explored in the choice between those t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Political Science
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0007-1234,1469-2112
DOI: 10.1017/s0007123406000135