Wagner Gerhard. Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut, Redewendungen aus dem Mittelalter. WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt: 1. Auflage 2011, Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2. Auflage 2012, 160 pp
Abstract
The author in her essay briefly visits the history of thinking about democracy. However, the focus of her contemplations is on describing the limits of contemporary democracy.
One of the perils threatening the democratic parliamentary system is the “tyranny of the majority” in parliaments, which means that the opinions and proposals of political minorities are being overlooked. It was Alexis de Tocqueville who defined the term “tyranny of the majority” and the author of this work took this term and its definition as the cornerstone of this article and applied it to the current democratic model.
She also indicated what means could be used to weaken the tyranny of the majority (as well as the tyranny of the minority) and strengthen democracy.