Majority-minority Educational Success Sans Integration: A Comparative-International View

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

A Model for Postdoctoral Education That Promotes Minority and Majority Success in the Biomedical Sciences

How does the United States maintain the highest-quality research and teaching in its professional science workforce and ensure that those in this workforce are effectively trained and representative of national demographics? In the pathway to science careers, the postdoctoral stage is formative, providing the experiences that define the independent work of one's first faculty position. It is al...

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 ...