https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Is-the-Majority-Always-Right https://booksandideas.net/Is-the-Majority-Always-Right 2019-03-04T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre-Étienne Vandamme Philosophy democracy justice majority principle Institut français political philosophy <p>What justifies majority decision making in democracies? Can we consider that the majority is more likely to be right? Didier Mineur reflects on the philosophical foundations of a rule that has become so self-evident in our societies.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Slow-Triumph-of-the-Majority https://booksandideas.net/The-Slow-Triumph-of-the-Majority 2012-06-11T10:09:07Z text/html en Olivier Christin Carousel History political representation Europe vote majority principle Institut français <p>How do you renounce unanimity to embrace the majority principle? How do you ward off the dissastisfaction of a minority defeated by vote? Those problems haunted the Middle Ages, the system of orders and ranks of which made room for the majority principle in many of its central institutions. For historian Olivier Christin, we need to reassess this era's contribution to the origins of the kind of political decision-making that is associated with the democratic revolution.</p>