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Majority rule - positive properties

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Majority rule and cycling

Instability of majority decisions may result because of the coalition formation “game”.
Similar cycling phenomena have been claimed to occur over time in a two party system when the two parties alternately come to government.

Majority rule and redistribution

•Majority rule may make some better off at the expense of others who are made worse off. This is called (here) redistribution by Mueller.

Median voter theorem

the program that represents the preference of the median voter always wins
•The median voter theorem holds if all preferences can be projected on one single dimension, and if all individual preferences are single peaked in that dimension.

“Why so much stability under majority rule?”

•Stability or apparent stability? •The large scale occurrence of external environmental costs in society and many phenomena of non-sustainability can be considered as effects of majority decision making, especially in combination with the fact that in current national and international law, legal liability for external costs is often conditional, limited, and/or non existing. It can be seriously questioned whether the stability is genuine and real rather than apparent and ephemeral