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majoritarian, a.|məˌdʒɒrɪˈtɛərɪən|
[f. majority + -arian as in libertarian, etc.]
Governed by or believing in decision by a majority; supporting the majority party. Also as n.
1918J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War XX. 118 Early in June came the delegation of the German Majority Socialists, which included—besides Scheidemann, the Majoritarian leader—that Hermann Müller who, on the eve of the declaration of war, had invited the French Socialists to vote against war credits. 1957Britannica Bk. of Year 512/1 Some new words arose from politics and world affairs... Majoritarian was an adjective meaning ruled by the beliefs of the majority. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 484/2 The idea of party responsibility..aims at facilitating the practice of majoritarian democracy. 1965Listener 21 Jan. 113/3 The fateful divide in the pre-revolutionary Russian Social-Democratic movement between the Mensheviks (i.e., minoritarians) and the Bolsheviks (i.e., majoritarians)..went far deeper than a purely political argument. 1971P. Worsthorne Socialist Myth viii. 196 The idealistic disillusion with majoritarian democracy. 1972Mod. Law Rev. XXXV. i. 73 In exercising their discretion the courts have normally adopted a posture which is both ‘legalistic’ and ‘majoritarian’.., majoritarian in the sense that the views of the majority have been treated as the most probative..factor.
Hence majoriˈtarianism, belief in, or the existence of, rule or decisions by a majority.
1961in Webster. 1968A. Lijphart Politics of Accommodation vii. 125 In short, the rule is majoritarianism tempered by the spirit of concurrent majority. 1968Internat. Encycl. Social Sci. IX. 537/2 Opponents of strict majoritarianism advance numerous arguments. First, they point out that the majoritarian principle might be used to destroy the conditions of its own existence, such as freedom of association and expression. 1975N.Y. Times 28 Mar. 27/3 The public interest defined as the greatest happiness for the greatest number..has hardened into an increasingly impervious ‘majoritarianism’. |