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- Provides a practical guide to democratic decision-making
- Compares voting procedures used in collective decision-making
- Highlights the advantages of a preferential points system of voting
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions. By comparing the many voting procedures used in democratic decision-making, it explains why win-or-lose binary voting can be inaccurate and divisive, while the more inclusive preferential points system of voting can be so much more accurate and, therefore, more democratic; indeed, it is a win-win methodology. The text, essential reading for anyone interested in fair and participatory collective decision-making, also compares the most common electoral systems.
Reviews
“For those practitioners who are already convinced of consensus decision-making’s merits, and therefore less in need of a theoretical discussion than a ‘how-to’ guide, this book will be a welcome contribution. Broader audiences may enjoy it too: there should always be a space for big ideas in research, and Democratic Decision-making is certainly that. Emerson deserves credit for championing his sincerely-held belief in consensus politics despite continued indifference from much of the ‘formal’ political world.” (Luke Field,Irish Political Studies, March 28, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
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The de Borda Institute, Belfast, UK
Peter Emerson
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democratic Decision-making
Book Subtitle: Consensus Voting for Civic Society and Parliaments
Authors: Peter Emerson
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52808-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52807-2Published: 23 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52808-9Published: 22 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 99
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Electoral Politics, Microeconomics, Comparative Politics