Saglasnost i većinsko glasanje
Consent and Majority Vote

Author(s): Ivan Mladenović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Sciences, Comparative politics
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Theory of democracy; Thomas Hobbes; Citizen; Leviathan; Majority voting; Political obligation; John Locke; Social contract; David Hume; Social contract; Authority; Obedience
Summary/Abstract: The main goal of this book is the interpretation of the relationship between consent and majority voting, as the basis of the understanding of legitimacy in the modern era and the foundation of modern political philosophy. The author approaches this topic primarily by considering the theories of the classical theorists of the social contract, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, as well as the criticism of this theory by David Hume. On the other hand, the book deals with the relevance of this topic for contemporary normative political theory and the theory of democracy. Some of the important problems faced by contemporary theories are how it is possible to determine which procedure of political decision-making is, normatively speaking, the most adequate for a political community, and which is the most adequate way to establish such a procedure.

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