By Julian Bernauer
Examining as much as one hundred thirty ethnic teams and their events in crucial and jap ecu democracies, the e-book defines the foremost innovations of ethnic identification and partisan-descriptive ethnic minority illustration. the writer considers which elements impact the electoral access and luck of ethnic minority events and the degrees of teams' partisan-descriptive illustration in parliament, and the way those in flip impression on person degrees of pride with democracy and the protest behaviour of minority groups.
Applying a constant analytical lens on occasion festival, voter behaviour, political attitudes and team clash, this learn demystifies ethnic politics and gives a extra unified idea of ethnic minority illustration through ethnic parties.
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Their main party, the ‘Movement for Rights and Freedom’ (MRF), was founded by Ahmed Doˇgan, a Turkish activist who spent time in prison because of his commitment to the Turkish minority prior to the end of the Communist regime (Bugajski, 2002, p. 180). The platform of the MRF seeks to abolish discrimination against ethnic minorities on the job market and other areas, but does not promote secession (Bugajski, 2002, pp. 812–3). The party was quite successful and made it into government coalitions multiple times (Bugajski, 2002, p.
As ethnic parties run by political entrepreneurs should cater for their policy-seeking ethnic voters who decide over their access to office, representation should increase the probability that ethnic minority interests are advanced in the political process. As a result, the expectation is that partisan-descriptive representation generally increases regime support among ethnic minorities and in particular satisfaction with democracy. This hypothesis will be qualified further in Chapters 2 and 3, considering that not all members of ethnic groups might benefit equally.
The theoretical framework applies to niche parties in general, not only ethnic ones, and turns out to bear some explanatory power for the special case of ethnic minority parties. Chapter 4 is the first of two chapters devoted to the, in normative terms, crucial question on the consequences of descriptive representation. It explores whether integrating ethnic groups into a political system increases stability, here regarding satisfaction with democracy. The analysis covers individual members of ethnic minorities by adding survey data to parts of the database on ethnic minority groups and their levels of partisan-descriptive representation in parliament analysed in Chapter 3.