majoritarian
Speech parts
1. majoritarian - Noun
2. majoritarian - Adjective
Meaning
majoritarian (comparative more majoritarian, superlative most majoritarian)
Supporting the dominance of the majority over the minority.
majoritarian (plural majoritarians)
One who supports the dominance of the majority over the minority.
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Examples
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.
Although list-elected representatives in Britain do appear to have a different constituency role, these representatives add an important element of pluralism to Britain's majoritarian politics.
He emphasised that until Nigeria takes into proper cognisance, its environmental peculiarities, the search for majoritarian democracy would continue to encourage maiming, killing, and making widows and widowers out of Nigerian politics.
On September 23, the election bloc United Opposition – Strength in Unity led by the United National Movement (UNM), former ruling party in 2004-12, unveiled the list of majoritarian candidates to run in the October 31 parliamentary elections.
In his second lecture, entitled In Praise of Politics, Lord Sumption argues that although majority rule is a basic principle of democracy, majoritarian decision-making is only enough to authorise state action, it is not enough to make them legitimate.
He came to understand that “race” does not fully explain “the breach between the world and me,” yet race exerts a crucial force, and young blacks like his son are vulnerable and endangered by “majoritarian bandits.”