Word: majoritarian
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...that judicial nominees cannot be filibustered. Once the filibuster is eliminated for confirmation, the party in power will likely extend this practice to every “important” piece of legislation that cannot garner the sixty votes to overcome the motion, and a key check on majoritarian power will disappear...
...ascended to the ALP leadership, narrowly defeating his top rivals and promising to regain the government for the party. Closely watched with both fear and admiration, the new opposition leader steadily pushed away from Howard in polling since his ascension. Australia’s strange parliamentary system—majoritarian multi-party—means great difficulty in predicting likely election results. Most polling organizations simply give the option between the two major parties, which, for the latest results from the end of March, show the ALP at 55.5 percent against a 44.5 percent Liberal coalition...
Ostensibly, proportional voting protects third-party candidates and others who wouldn’t have a shot in majoritarian elections, and is a cause celebre for the Green Party...
...elect a government. But constitution-making is a deeply contentious business in Iraq, which has, pretty much since it was constituted as a nation-state by the British after World War I, been ruled by the Sunni minority. The Shiite majority, naturally, insist on nothing short of a majoritarian democracy, while the Kurds demand the right to govern northern Iraq as an autonomous component of an Iraqi federation (the consternation of neighboring Turkey). Right now there's substantial disagreement over how a constitution should be adopted - the key Shiite religious authorities have insisted that only a democratically elected body...
...overly physical and sensual nature of the gesture. Surely, she thought, this was someone a degenerate like Tipper Gore would adore (after all, she made out with her husband on national television, in front of the children!), but not a mild-mannered librarian and Moral Majoritarian from small-town America...