van der Meer, Tom, and Bastiaan Rijpkema. “Militant Democracy and the Minority to Majority Effect: on the Importance of Electoral System Design.” European Constitutional Law Review 18, no. 3 (2022): 511-532.
Abstract
Impact of electoral system design on democratic self-defence – ‘informal’ (content neutral) militant democracy instrument – the minority to majority effect (assigning majoritarian power to political minorities) increases the risk of democratic backsliding – minority to majority goes beyond conventional systemic dichotomies as majoritarianism versus proportionalism: outcome of diverse system features – resources and incentives as explanatory mechanisms – preliminary case studies – the limitations of institutional engineering.
