Overview
- Offers a complete guide on electing majority or all-party, power-sharing coalitions
- Gives examples, clearly depicted in tables, to illustrate the different voting procedures
- Shows how to achieve consensus by preferential voting
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book discusses voting procedures in collective decision-making. Drawing on well-established election processes from all over the world, the author presents a voting procedure that allows for the speedy but fair election of a proportional, all-party coalition. The methodology - a matrix vote - is accurate, robust and ethno-color blind. In the vote, the counting procedure encourages all concerned to cross the gender as well as any party and/or sectarian divides.  While in the resulting executive each party will be represented fairly and, at best, with the consensus of parliament, every minister will be the one most suited to his/her new portfolio. By using preferential voting and thus achieving consensus, the matrix vote will be fundamental to the resolution of conflicts.
The matrix vote can also be used when:
•  two or more parliamentary parties elect a coalition government
•  one parliamentary party elects a government or shadow cabinet, or organizations in civil society elect their governing boards or executive committees
•  any group chooses a fixed number of individuals to form a team in which each member carries out a different function
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Majority Rule to Inclusive Politics
Authors: Peter Emerson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23500-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23499-1Published: 22 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79493-8Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23500-4Published: 16 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 146
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Public Economics, Human Rights, International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict