increases. The experiment also points to new avenues for refining the theory. We find that, as the payoff of a successful …

. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most important, the minority can win occasionally. But because the majority … typically can outvote it, the minority wins only of its strength of preferences is high and the majority's strength of … confirmed by a series of experiments: the frequency of minority victories, the relative payoff of the minority versus the …

side demands votes and each demands enough votes to alone control a majority. The probability of a minority victory is … independent of the size of the minority and converges to one half, for any minority size, when the electorate is arbitrarily large …