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by Didier Mineur (Author)
What justifies the power held by a majority? What are its limits? To answer these questions, this work examines the substantive hypothesis about the rationality of size and the procedural hypothesis that supposes that it is only justified because it gives each vote equal weight.
Author Biography
Didier Mineur est maitre de conferences en philosophie politique a l'Institut d'etudes politiques de Rennes. Ses travaux portent sur la representation politique, l'Etat de droit, les renouvellements du jusnaturalisme et le principe de majorite. Il a publie Archeologie de la representation politique (Paris, 2010), Carre de Malberg (Paris, 2010) et de nombreux articles en philosophie politique et philosophie du droit.