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What does majoritarianism mean?

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Noun
  1. A form of democracy in which decisions are made by a simple majority of some organized group.
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Still, there is a distinction to be made between majority rule and majoritarianism.
As in so many other areas, majoritarianism and limited government conflict.
Two tendencies correspond to this: the implementation of populist majoritarianism and growing manipulation by the elite.
Who says he didn't? If this fragmentation is everywhere enfeebling to governments, in Britain with its traditional two-party system, majoritarianism and, at the apex, all-powerful prime minister the effect is traumatic.
This majoritarianism has combined with other features to provide Britain with responsible party government.
But it was despotic kings and functionless aristocrats more functionless in France than in Britain who thwarted the interests and ambitions of the middle class, which turned, therefore, to the principle of majoritarianism.

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