While the majority of attendees rejected on principle and practical grounds the establishment of a secular Jewish State, a minority influenced by the dire situation were in favour.
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Idiosyncrasy credits are but one of a number of concepts that attempt to explain how some minority views are influential, while others are not ( see Minority influence ).
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An important aspect of the Australia Party and later Australian Democrats is they nullified then overtook the minority influence of the Democratic Labour Party that had wielded much influence in post war federal and state politics.
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This notion has been embraced by social scientists like Moscovici, who has pursued this rationale as the basis for his theory of minority influence in group situations, and has also been incorporated into sociocognitive conflict theory.
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Initially, Moscovici's conversion theory of minority influence began as a minority opinion that was rejected by many researchers, but eventually members of opposition validated it, thus confirming the theory's exact predictions.
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Rep . Martin Frost of Texas, who heads the Democrats'national redistricting effort, contended that by spreading minority voters around, " we can maximize minority strength and minority influence in the Congress ."
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They said in papers filed with the Justice Department that the plan represented a dilution of minority influence . ( A federal lawsuit by some of those same groups, challenging the Senate plan, is under way .)
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Although these exact terms have not been directly ported over to the literature, researchers such as Moscovici and Nemeth have adopted the perspective that majority and minority influence are moderated by multiple processes ( Levine, 1999 ).
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"The loyal opposition does have a burden to highlight problems in legislation and policy, " said Sen . Jeff Sessions, R-Ala . " The Democrats were effective in maximizing their minority influence.
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In New Jersey, an independent commission took the opposite approach from Virginia in reworking state legislative boundaries : Three districts with large black populations were " unpacked, " leaving four new districts with sufficient minority influence to elect black candidates.
