The framework of the spiral of silence theory based on few assumptions: First, it describes as a dynamic process, the predication about public opinion in mass media which gives more coverage for the majorities in the society and gives very less coverage for minorities. Second, in this social e...
It's a Sunday morning in 2009, and I'm standing under the shower in a hotel room in Lyon. Rain drums against the window; at the end of a narrow street, I can just see one of the two rivers that flow through the city. In an hour, I'm due at city hall to participate in a p...
The same quantities disaggregated for cases when absolute or simple majorities are reached, are also reported in the middle and bottom panels, respectively. With a few exceptions, the effects of abstention on minority seems always positive in terms of preference representation (average gps reduction)...
Future research needs to pay more attention to the way that relationships and encounters between Muslim immigrants and street-level bureaucrats are haunted by asymmetrical phantasms and culturalist assumptions of “us” and “them”, majorities and minorities in Danish society. This kind of research ...