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Even the underlying problems that these initiatives were meant to address don't strike him as having to do with the national interest: you might favor universal health-care as an anti-inequality measure, but Cost views it as just another goody for non-majoritarian groups trying to claw more from the government.
The institutions of individual rights and the recognition of patient autonomy are not contradictory to this, but are believed to serve the overall good, as individual benefit increases the total good, and serves as a preventative measure of unjustified majoritarian actions against smaller groups.
Such majoritarian politics, when a larger religious group sets out to absorb or flatten a minority, is utterly destructive.
Founded in 1972, the LTTE was among the many groups formed to resist the majoritarian constitution of Sri Lanka which imposed Sinhala as the "sole official language" upon the country.
But it could be a useful tool in newly democratic states like Myanmar and Sri Lanka where minority religious groups still feel disconnected from a majoritarian government.
Consequently, the members of Lenin's adventitious majority were called Bolsheviks (majoritarians), and Martov's group were dubbed Mensheviks (minoritarians).
The protest — a day after the country's new "majoritarian" Constitution took effect — was the first time that opposition groups, from political parties to civil organizations, joined forces to rally against the new Constitution, which was drawn up and ratified by Mr. Orban's Fidesz party in defiance of criticism from Europe and the United States.
The first two are really demands for inclusion into mainstream society: special representation rights are best understood as (temporary) measures to alleviate the obstacles that minorities and/or historically disadvantaged groups face in having their voices heard in majoritarian democratic institutions.
In consensual or corporatist political systems, the importance of this mechanism for interest groups should be high, while it should be low in majoritarian or pressure-pluralist systems [34].
All of these groups use consensus decision-making, which aims to satisfy everyone's needs, instead of majoritarian decision-making that excludes the needs of the minority.
An example of such a process would be a majoritarian one: if more than 50% of the members believe p, the process generates a group belief in p as well.
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