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The indeterminate relationship of supermajority voting requirements and majority rule theory.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The indeterminate relationship of supermajority voting requirements and majority rule theory.
Author:	King, Brett W.
Description:	344 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Lloyd Rudolph.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-10, Section: A, page: 4160.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-10A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9990566
ISBN:	0599977264

The indeterminate relationship of supermajority voting requirements and majority rule theory.
King, Brett W.

The indeterminate relationship of supermajority voting requirements and majority rule theory.[electronic resource] - 344 p.

Adviser: Lloyd Rudolph.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2000.

Chapter 1 discusses corporate supermajority rules. The first part of the chapter offers a historical survey of the use of voting rules in corporate America, reviewing how such rules evolved over time from unanimity requirements employed by Colonial-era corporations to majority and supermajority rules commonly seen in late twentieth century corporate governance structures. The second half of Chapter 1 presents findings from my empirical research on corporate supermajority rules, concluding that such rules have no effect on the price a company's shareholders receive from acquirors in the context of a merger or acquisition of the company.

ISBN: 0599977264Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

The indeterminate relationship of supermajority voting requirements and majority rule theory.
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520 # $a Chapter 2 queries why the Framers included 6 (and only 6) supermajority rules when drafting the U.S. Constitution.
520 # $a Chapter 3 analyzes the two most important political developments in American supermajoritarian theory that have occurred in the last fifty years: the Supreme Court's 1970 decision in <italic>Gordon v. Lance</italic> (the Court's only case directly addressing supermajority rules, in which it decided that such rules were constitutionally permissible) and Rule XXI(5)(c) of the House of Representatives (adopted in 1996, this procedural rule requires a supermajority vote of three-fifths of the House on all bills that raise taxes, the first time Congress has required more than a majority vote on substantive legislation).
520 # $a Chapter 4 analyzes a political theory put forth by Yale law professor Akil Reed Amar. Amar has asserted that a correct reading of the historical record of the founding era means that notwithstanding the text of Article V of the U.S. Constitution (which requires a supermajority vote of the states and Congress to amend the Constitution), a simple majority of the American people may at any time pass a Constitutional amendment by popular vote.
520 # $a Chapter 5 is a brief review of various instances where majority rule and supermajority requirements have been used during the last two and a half millennia. This Chapter eschews deep historical analysis and instead attempts to give the reader a taste of the various and sundry ways in which majority and supermajority rules have been used in the past by moving briefly though a number of noteworthy historical examples.
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