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majoritarian

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Describing a system that gives power to what most people want

adjective
/ˌmeɪdʒərɪˈtɛəriən/

Formal

: mayoritario

Advocates of democracy argue that a majoritarian framework is essential for reflecting the will of the people.
majoritarian democracy
majoritarian politics
majoritarian policies

What I am saying is lean into the majoritarian positions without adding your culture war bullshit on top of it.

Examples

Critics of the Senate filibuster have typically attacked it as a violation of democratic-majoritarian principles.

Academic text (1997)
Today, around the world, we see variations on the same majoritarian theme.

Academic text (1997)
Often, the best a court can do is adopt instead a majoritarian approach and seek out which terms most parties in similar circumstances would prefer.
On one hand, Roosevelt's changes were made in the name of majoritarian government.

Academic text (2000)
Some groups, however, are at peculiar risk of being excluded constantly from any majoritarian coalition.

Academic text (1997)
And they increase accuracy because the majoritarian rule is, by definition, broadly consistent with the preferences of most parties.

Academic text (2017)
The first principle is the protection of majoritarian democracy, which entails the protection of democratic values in two different contexts.

Academic text (2007)
The redistributive tendencies of majoritarian government should be offset with the use of supramajority legislative voting rules.

Academic text (1992)
The committee adopted a majoritarian approach to ensure that the views of the majority were represented in the final decision.
In a majoritarian system, the opinion of the majority often prevails over the preferences of minority groups.

Surface Forms

majoritarian positive

Morphology

majoritarian = majority (transparent) = majority + arian

Clearly formed from 'majority' plus the productive adjectival/relational suffix '-arian', yielding 'relating to or favoring the majority'.

Etymology

The word majoritarian comes from major meaning 'greater' and majority meaning 'the greater number'. So a majoritarian system gives the larger group the power to decide, which is why it is based on majority rule.