Majority Rule — A Cause of War?

Democracy, as practised in most countries nowadays, is adversarial. The fact that presidents and/or policies are changed as the result of a vote rather than as a consequence of a bloody revolution or war is to be welcomed. Sometimes, however, the distinction between peaceful and violent change is muddied. Indeed, the use of divisive voting procedures has often exacerbated tensions in societies that have then tumbled into violence. Win-or-lose voting procedures — i.e. yes-or-no majority votes in decision-making and single preference systems in elections — along with a practice which is based on these voting methodologies, namely, that of majority rule, have often been part of the problem. ASIN 0754678261