Portal:Politics/Selected article/2008, week 16

Minoritarianism is a neologism, closely related to the term minority rule, both of which describe a political philosophy or agenda which asserts that a segment of a country's population, often an ethnic group delineated by religion, language or some other identifying factor, to which a minority of its citizens belong is entitled to a certain degree of primacy in that country's society, giving it the right to make decisions that affect the society.