Pluralism and Decision Rules in Democratic Governance

Concepts about how democratic authority is spread among decision makers and how decisions are reached among people who disagree. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes a rule for deciding or a pattern of organizing authority in a democratic setting. Majority rule and minority rights is the principle that the larger number decides while those outvoted keep protected rights, and polycentric governance is the idea, developed by Vincent Ostrom and Elinor Ostrom and their colleagues, that governance can work through many centers of decision making with overlapping jurisdictions. The group lets a reader compare a decision rule with a way of dividing authority.