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Dummett, 1997, p 39.
A full list of ‘democratic dictators’ is in Emerson (2002). There are some good ways of taking majority votes, of course, and one of the best is the citizens’ initiative, in which the question on the ballot paper is not so open to manipulation by the politician in power.
Reform of New Zealand’s Voting System, Malcolm Mackerras in Representation, Summer 1994, p 36. See also Colin Hughes in Butler and Ranney, p 171.
In the 1973 border poll in Northern Ireland, the ‘Omainly Catholic’ SDLP organised a regional boycott. In the Balkans, it was worse. In 1991 in Croatia, the Catholics boycotted a poll run by the Orthodox in the ‘krajina’-(three areas of Croatia which were largely populated by Serbs)-and one week later, in a nation-wide ballot, it was vice versa; the combined result was war. In the 1992 referendum in Bosnia, the Orthodox organised a similar boycott; so, on a 63% turnout, they lost, by 99%; the result was another war. Emerson (2000). See p 142. Referendums in the Caucasus, in both Abhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh, were retrospective and post-war... by which time, in each case, the minority was in exile and disenfranchised. Emerson, 2002, p 12.
An example from Nicolaus Tideman is included in the paper by Markus Schulze (p 95n) and it demonstrates the point quite clearly.
Ibid.
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(2007). The Art or Science of Manipulation. In: Emerson, P. (eds) Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33164-3_5
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