The majoritarian world view espoused by Mr Erdogan and leaders of his ilk is a kind of zombie democracy.
"It is a majoritarian position,"argues one of those who helped write the speech.
And if you're a singular voice against majoritarian opinion, then your voice can get heard".
If majoritarian legislative views, such as that represented in Senator Fitzgerald's remarks, compromise the constitutional right of these children to an adequate education, it is the obligation of the courts to defend their interests.
Yet the arguments for the Electoral College are also compelling, and in our view, outweigh the majoritarian case put forward by Mrs. Clinton and others.
To judge by his non-stop speechifying, Erdoğan views politics as a majoritarian blood sport in which the winner takes all, loyalty is rewarded and opposition denounced as treachery.
In books such as Poverty and Famine and Hunger and Public Action, Sen makes the case that democracy – but, as he insists, it has to be a "functioning democracy" with an open clamour of diverse views rather than mere majoritarian tyranny– keeps people alive.
It is mathematically understandable that majoritarian Muslim faith and sentiment might drive the country's politics.
At one point, he even criticizes views that limit democracy to mere majoritarian rule insofar as they neglect the importance of the single individual's ability "to make his personal opinion be heard and appreciated," preferably in smaller publics, such as families, schools, local communities (cited in L. Embree 1999, 271).
This is a bit worrying, given that in Mr Axelrod's view, his new protege is well placed to be a strong majoritarian figure.
