protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving …. The bonus vote performs well: when minority preferences are particularly intense, the minority wins at least one of the … contests with 15ndash;30 percent probability; and, when the minority wins, aggregate welfare increases with 85ndash;95 percent …

preferences: once the minority share in a neighborhood exceeds a critical quot;tipping point,quot; all the whites leave. We use … tipping points ranging from 5% to 20% minority share. The estimated discontinuities are robust to controls for a wide variety … of neighborhood characteristics, and are as strong in the suburbs as in tracts close to high-minority neighborhoods …

. 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 …

emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …

In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget … of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide …-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that corresponds to a decentralized version of the Colonel Blotto game. We offer …

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial … total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it possible for the minority to win … minority of 45 senators would be able to block between 20 and 35 percent of nominees. For most parameter values, the …