Militant Democracy and the Minority to Majority Effect on the Importance of Electoral System Design

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Publication date 09-2022
Journal European Constitutional Law Review
Volume | Issue number 18 | 3
Pages (from-to) 511-532
Number of pages 22
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Impact of electoral system design on democratic self-defence – ‘informal’ (content neutral) militant democracy instrument – the minority to majority effect (assigning majoritarian power to political minorities) increases risk of democratic backsliding – minority to majority goes beyond conventional systemic dichotomies as majoritarianism versus proportionalism: outcome of diverse system features – resources and incentives as explanatory mechanisms – preliminary case studies – the limitations of institutional engineering.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S157401962200027X
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