Dividing the Rulers How Majority Cycling Saves Democracy by Yuhui Li PAPERBACK

Dividing the RulersHow Majority Cycling Saves Democracy\nAuthor(s): Yuhui Li\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472040131, 978-0472040131\nSynopsis\nThe election of populist politicians in recent years seems to challenge the commitment to democracy, if not its ideal. This book argues that majority rule is not the problem; rather, the institutions that stabilize majorities are responsible for the suppression of minority interests. Despite the popular notion that social choice instability (or cycling) makes it impossible for majorities to make sound legislation, Yuhui Li argues that the best part of democracy is not the large number of people on the winning side; it is that the winners can be easily divided and realigned with the losers in the cycling process. He shows that minorities bargaining power depends on their ability to exploit division within the winning coalition and induce i.