Minoritarianism

Minoritarianism (also often called minority rule) is a political philosophy or agenda which asserts that a segment of a country's population (categorized by religion, language or some other factor) to which a minority of its citizens belong is entitled to obstruct political progress sought by a majority or is otherwise entitled to a certain degree of primacy in that country's society. In democracies, this obstruction often surfaces in cases where there are supermajority election decision threshold requirements.

On a smaller scale, minoritarianism is also in force when a minority segment of a group that decides issues using consensus decision-making thwarts particular decisions from being made.

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