by Arent Lijphart
New Haven: Yale University Press. New Haven, 1999.
Book review: Gerardo E. Martínez-Solanas
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Lijphart outlines in this book two competing types of democracy he classifies as "majoritarian" or Westminster democracy and "consensus" democracy. The first one works with a legislature elected by a simple majority and the voters are empowered to throw the ruling party out if it governs poorly. The second one makes special emphasis on minority rights and more involvement of citizens in political decisions.
The author is nowadays the primary advocate of the consensual approach to democracy and he elaborates in this book his previous analysis in "Democracy in Plural Societies" on the ways and means for a functional democracy on states where traditional majoritarian rule might not work due to deep ethnic, linguistic, religious or other emotional fissures in society.
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Una flamante teoría sobre los determinantes del desarrollo económico
Jacques Maritain es un autor de referencia fundamental para la democracia y el humanismo, además de otros aspectos también muy importantes de su obra, incluyendo la metafísica y sus análisis del tomismo y la escolástica.