Majority-Minority Constellations: Towards A Group-Differentiated Approach

Group status drives majority and minority integration preferences.

This research examined preferences for national- and campus-level assimilative and pluralistic policies among Black and White students under different contexts, as majority- and minority-group members. We targeted attitudes at two universities, one where 85% of the student body is White, and another where 76% of students are Black. The results revealed that when a group constituted the majority...

Minority Challenge of Majority

Dancing With Myself: The effect of majority group size on perceptions of majority and minority robot group members

While social psychology has identified characteristics of intergroup dynamics, few studies have looked into the perceptions of robot group dynamics. In this experiment, we separate robots into majority and minority groups based solely on their behavior in a simple dance routine. We attempt to understand how people’s perceptions of robots within those groups change based on group size and featur...

A Theory of Minority and Majority Governments

We develop a theory of the emergence of minority and majority governments in multiparty parliamentary systems using a canonical non-cooperative bargaining model and assuming a policy space of arbitrary finite dimension, any number of political parties, and a general class of preferences over the government agreement space. Only majority governments form in the absence of significant political d...

minority, majority and their legitimacy philosophy

in this article the historical expression by martyr zaidebn e-ali on negation of forbidden majority has been described. also the majority and minority issue in the quran has been compared with current majority and minority in the political sciences. it seems that in the quran the majority which does not apply reason and does not know is the majority of opponents of prophets. thus, the majority ...