The majority decides and the minority must accept this decision. What happens if the minority becomes a “persistent minority” – if it is permanently outvoted? The unit focuses on this problem (2020).

These lessons focus on Chapter 7 in Volume 1, Part 2 of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, in which Tocqueville lays out his arguments about the dangers of the ʺtyranny of the majority.ʺ(USA: EDSITEment 2019)

The filibuster is a powerful legislative device in the United States Senate, but reconciliation provides a process to prevent the use of the filibuster and thereby allow the passage of a bill with simple majority support in the Senate (2021).

By the year 2044, people of color will make up a majority of the U.S. population. Jennifer Bradley studies a region in Minnesota changing as rapidly as any in the country (Brookings Essay 2015-20).

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The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a computer, research on the wage effect of computer use effectively came to a halt after DiNardo and Pischke [1997] found that wages were also positively associated with pencil use, ...