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	Science Fair Projects - Minoritarianism
		In democracies, and in particular, direct democracy in the form of initiatives, minoritarianism often surfaces in cases where there are supermajority election decision threshold requirements.
		Even in the case where minority control is nominally limited to blocking the majority with veto power (whether as a result of a supermajority requirement or a consensus process), this may result in the situation where the minority retains effective control over the group's agenda and the nature of the proposals submitted to the group.
		Minoritarianism is in force when a minority segment of such a group thwarts particular decisions from being made or otherwise wields significant control over the process as a result of their veto power.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Minoritarianism (451 words)

	Anti-majoritarian, pro-globalisation
		Chapter 13 in the volume, with the title "Majoritarianism versus Minoritarianism" deals with the role of numbers in a democracy.
		Having thus established the foundational error of constituting permanent majorities and minorities in a large collectivity such as a nation, the author goes on to evaluate the majoritarianism that the Sangh Parivar and the Bharatiya Janata Party have been trying to perpetuate, using Hindutva as the criterion.
		In the long run, attempts to mobilise strength on the basis of majoritarianism or minoritarianism are self-defeating because people have multiple identities and these will assert themselves depending on circumstances.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2221/stories/20051021001107400.htm (1362 words)

	Minoritarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In democracies, and in particular, direct democracy in the form of initiatives, minoritarianism often surfaces in cases where there are supermajority election decision threshold requirements.
		Even in the case where minority control is nominally limited to blocking the majority with veto power (whether as a result of a supermajority requirement or a consensus process), this may result in the situation where the minority retains effective control over the group's agenda and the nature of the proposals submitted to the group.
		Minoritarianism is in force when a minority segment of such a group thwarts particular decisions from being made or otherwise wields significant control over the process as a result of their veto power.
	minoritarianism.iqnaut.net (303 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		They have no right to claim to a "dominant cultural pattern" which, as stated by John Howard, is the norm in the any politically diverse society.
		But "minoritarianism", even if it is authoritarian, oppressive and excessively inhuman, has been elevated to a sacred level by those who proclaim from roof tops to be human rights activists.
		Tambiah of Harvard has become the standard reference for his acolytes running in the rat race to advance their careers in the groves of academe.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2006/02/19/fea08.html (954 words)

	Amazon.com: Minoritarianism: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		he declared for minoritarianism that it by no means followed that the greatest number...
		It is important to register that for Leavis and Thompson, minoritarianism was an inevitable result of working against the grain of...
		Hindu community; that it was, in fact, a form of minoritarianism which required the reform of Hinduism even as it...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Minoritarianism&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (685 words)

	CiteULike: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		with regards to questions of minoritarianism (relevant for thinking in particular around race, gender, and sexuality): The politics of the minoritarian play a somewhat small but prominent role in Deleuze & Guattari’s arguments for a new metaphysics.
		This thinking is especially relevant in light of questions of embodiment in cyberspace, for many net users, for example, often ‘pass’ into minoritarian or majoritarian roles, allowing for a multiplicity of slippages and elisions that remain always uncountable and non-static.
		--- with regards to questions of minoritarianism (relevant for thinking in particular around race, gender, and sexuality): The politics of the minoritarian play a somewhat small but prominent role in Deleuze \& Guattari’s arguments for a new metaphysics.
	www.citeulike.org /user/NewMediaReferences/article/275174 (1265 words)

	News :::: Baabeilm.com
		Paranjpe when he wrote: "Right now, what, however, we have is a rotten secularism weakening an already embattled Hindu tradition by a politics of counter minoritarianism or militant minoritarianism".
		For secularists to prosper and lay hands on the sources of power, they need to keep encouraging militant minoritarianism.
		Hindutva, as generally painted by secularists, is Hinduism's response to secularist-supported militant minoritarianism.
	www.baabeilm.org /baabnews/baabnews.asp?id=2539 (1555 words)

	Say no to violence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Introduction: Communal tensions can be handled not by substituting Hinduism with secularism but by replacing a corrupt and rotten secularism with a genuinely pluralistic and satisfying Hinduism.
		Communal tensions can be handled not by substituting Hinduism with secularism but by replacing a corrupt and rotten secularism with a genuinely pluralistic and satisfying Hinduism.
		As a distinguished educationist, Dr Makarand Paranjpe recently noted, “what we have so far had is a rotten secularism weakening and undermining an already embattled Hindu tradition by the politics of militant minoritarianism.” This has to change.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0504/131.html (1224 words)

	Minoritarianism religion veto minority Majoritarianism supermajority political philosophy consensus decision-making See ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Minoritarianism religion veto minority Majoritarianism supermajority political philosophy consensus decision-making See also Minoritarianism in small deliberative groups Consensus democracy
		Too often good arguments are pursued in a manner that threatens us all with something worse than majoritarianism, namely minoritarianism.
		In Scruton's view, Mill's reaction against the prevailing and bloodless utilitarianism of the day simply replaced majoritarianism with minoritarianism.
	en.powerwissen.com /tckc7KLOuq96GWfyAoRsrg==_Minoritarianism.html (395 words)

	Pleasure, Perversion and Death 4.1 Subjectivity and Lived Bodies
		Only a subject who is able to escape oppression by being a passable (white, male) body is truly able to achieve pure social being.
		Those who are forced into interaction based on the specific minoritarianism of their flesh are those who also disprove the potential of any concept of enlightenment being for all humans.
		Enlightenment subjectivity insinuates a repudiation of the body, hence a repudiation of other bodies and the effects of the self upon them within a social, material and interactive context.
	www.cinestatic.com /trans-mat/MacCormack/PPD4-1.htm (1789 words)

	FEATURES SAMACHAR -- The only bookmark on Features you'll ever need (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Paranjpe when he wrote: "Right now, what, however, we have is a rotten secularism weakening an already embattled Hindu tradition by a politics of counter minoritarianism or militant minoritarianism".
		For secularists to prosper and lay hands on the sources of power, they need to keep encouraging militant minoritarianism.
		Hindutva, as generally painted by secularists, is Hinduism’s response to secularist-supported militant minoritarianism.
	www.samachar.com /features/060504-features.html (1676 words)

	Is Something Wrong with the GOP? \| Redstate
		They are the minority in a minoritarian system -- it is easy for them to look tough and strong because toughness and strength, for them, are conditioned by their ability to block and obstruct in Congress.
		I have a feeling you would argue that The Deal is another example of our system's inherent protection of minoritarianism, but I don't want to put words in your mouth.
		I do not see it so much as a product of the minoritarian element of government but rather the action of a few perspicacious members who recognized that derailing the Senate would be bad for them.
	www.redstate.com /story/2005/6/28/171129/792 (6963 words)

	Out-of-Step New York by David Brooks, City Journal Spring 1995
		Their enemies on the left were often more immediate presences than their allies on the right, and they focused much of their energy on combating liberal bias in the media and political correctness on campus.
		However appropriate these endeavors once were for conservatives and Republicans, there has been an element of minoritarianism in them.
		Now, however, the victorious Gingrich and company will find it hard to maintain the characteristic adversarial tone of the little and persecuted conservative standing up to the dominant media elite.
	www.city-journal.org /html/5_2_urbanities-out_of_step.html (2887 words)

	Imperial energies: The interplay of the democratic and the hegemonic in negotiating imperialism
		The dissertation traces the operation of this negotiating dynamic at particular junctures by examining the Enlightenment, 18th century travel and narrative literatures, sexuality, globalization, and emancipation in South Africa.
		The dissertation makes the case that allowing performance to have a greater role in shaping; postcolonial theoretical engagements can help move the field beyond constructing another model of difference with its risky emphasis on cultural minoritarianism to an espousal of healthy humanism based on subverting Western monopoly over signification.
		That is why the dissertation engages the pioneering South African experience with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission launched by Nelson Mandela to interrogate apartheid era crimes.
	docs.lib.purdue.edu /dissertations/AAI3104904 (223 words)

	Consensus decision making - dKosopedia
		There are a number of criticisms of consensus decision-making.
		One is that it can lead to a situation where a relatively small number of people, (a faction), can block action that is desired by the majority (see Minoritarianism).
		Another is that there may be decisions in which polarization occurs and no consensus can be reached.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Consensus_decision_making (3037 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Political Philosophy Forum :: Badiou's democratic materialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I don't know about dialectics but this will be inevitable.
		The doxology is the people at the top need to subscribe to minoritarianism.
		Revolution will be democratic because of the inoculation of the all the social conditioning which is a natural process.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-4321.html (444 words)

	Politics of Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The biggest minority would be the Blacks, but whoever would think of providing reservation for them in the Senate or Congress or in government service?
		Indeed in older textbooks on political science there would hardly be any reference to majoritarianism and minoritarianism.
		Here we constantly talk of minorities as if they are a plague and we even have a Minority Commission!
	ccc.domaindlx.com /socialcause/JAN16-31-2005/Politics.htm (1045 words)

	What Should the Republican Party Stand For? - By Terry Jeffrey and James Pinkerton - Slate Magazine
		Unfortunately, Buchanan is no longer Crossfire-ing against such legal piracy, because he's now tilting at the same free-trade wealth mill as such troublemaking malefactors of misinformation as Ross Perot, Jesse Jackson, and...
		To his credit, Terry doesn't seem to agree with Buchanan's neo-Hooverite trade policy, but much of his proposed Republican platform speaks to an emerging phenomenon on the social-issue right: Call it populist minoritarianism.
		Amid the general victory of conservative ideas on economics and foreign policy--many Democrats today are talking the talk, at least, of choice in education, health care, and retirement, and even Bill Clinton says he wants missile defense--the glaring failure of some conservative causes must grate hard on some 'wingers.
	www.slate.com /id/21880/entry/21919 (608 words)

	Donklephant » Blog Archive » For Demos, 3 Numbers = 1 Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Opposition is not in itself fatal, but it’s all in how you do the thing.
		As someone with a strong suspicion of many people on the right, I don’t relish the sight of the party of the political left charging down the path to permanent minoritarianism.
		But I’ll keep waiting for political leaders from that side who convince me America can be moved forward by appeals to what is great in our national heritage and dreams, rather than driven shame-faced into “progress” by the lash of Michael Moore’s tongue.
	donklephant.com /2005/09/26/for-demos-3-numbers-1-problem (2391 words)

	Absurdity of Cultural Liberalism
		The Democratic Party, like left-wingish parties everywhere, has prospered by promoting the interests of minorities.
		The theory of minoritarianism is that, by building a substantial portfolio of victim-niches you acquire enough political capital to rule.
		But in practice, the promotion of ostensibly unexceptionable values like equality and freedom becomes problematic when, in addressing pre-existing discrepancies, impatience and prejudice merge into a fanatical ideology characterised by superciliousness and bias.
	www.amen.ie /Papers/15160.htm (756 words)

	Left Center Left: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Most of the public not only continues to regard history as a discrete, verifiable body of facts—about presidents, wars, great events, and the like—but they like their history to portray America, as one witticism has it, having been born perfect and improving ever since.
		It's not as simple as optimism vs. pessimism, nationalism vs. minoritarianism though.
		New Left and mainstream academic historiography (they aren't the same thing, though they overlap some) see historical explanation as something that's contestable and in need of exploration.
	leftcenterleft.typepad.com /blog/history/index.html (2818 words)

	Consensus-seeking decision-making - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fallback voting procedure is sometimes characterized by a relatively high vote required for approval, such as 80%, with the idea that this approximates decision by consensus.
		However, there is controversy over whether this feature of the process truly approximates decision by consensus or subverts it by encouraging minoritarianism.
		Consensus-based groups adopting fallback voting processes often do so in order to facilitate timely decision-making.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consensus-seeking_decision-making (269 words)

	Dominance and Dissent: Interrogating the Terms of Discourse
		This sort of selective opposition to Hindu political militancy suggests the presence of an inverse communalism at the very core of this discourse.
		Such implicit tolerance or even support of minoritarian extremism actually lends strength to the insecurity of the majority, thus, perversely abetting militant majoritarianism.
		Hence, ironically, the academy ends up feeding and energising the very beast that it wishes to bind and tame.
	makarand.com /acad/DominanceandDissentInterrogatingtheTermsofDiscourse.htm (4376 words)

	Consensus-seeking decision-making - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		The fallback voting procedure is sometimes characterized by a relatively high vote required for approval, such as 80%, with the idea that this approximates decision by consensus.
		However, there is controversy over whether this feature of the process truly approximates decision by consensus or subverts it by encouraging minoritarianism.
		Consensus-based groups adopting fallback voting processes often do so in order to facilitate timely decision-making.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Consensus-seeking_decision-making (351 words)

	Consortium of Social Sciences Associations, Washington Update
		Gibson spoke about the prevalent factors enabling countries to become longstanding and stable democracies, using primarily the former Soviet Union and South Africa as examples.
		Overall, he emphasized, majoritarianism, or majority rule, coupled with minoritarianism, defined as the institutionalized opportunity for the minority to attempt to become the majority, need to be present in order for an environment to exist that is conducive to democracy.
		In the former USSR, for example, while he found that most of the citizens were highly in favor of majority-rule democratic practices, he found that the citizens’ political culture and attitudes were largely intolerant of ideas that were incongruent with their own.
	www.cossa.org /volume24/24.10.htm (3912 words)

	Minoritarianism: Not! (was Re: Alterman and Rorty) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		If you think the working class is not majority non-Hispanic white (men and women), then I'd like to see your statistical source, or better, to get some of the same drugs you're taking.
		> etc.--should not be thought of as 'class issues.' You know, such a view > would amount to a pernicious MINORITARIANISM, however vigorously it has > been supported by certain well-paid white male intellectuals.
		There are no well-paid intellectuals here, white male or otherwise.
	mailman.lbo-talk.org /1998/1998-May/001372.html (214 words)

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