Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition and Democracy

Ethnic minorities make contemporary Europe increasingly diverse. The wisdom in research on ethnicity is that a trouble-maker disrupting programmatic politics, prioritizing group identity over ideology, polity over policy, principle over compromise.

Employing a basket of quantitative and qualitative approaches and drawing on detailed in-depth case studies from Central and Eastern Europe Jan Rovny's new book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the role of minorities in democratic politics. 

• Speaker: Jan Rovny (Sciences Po, Paris)
• Discussant: Licia Cianetti 
• Chair and Convenor: Tim Haughton 

This is a Joint CEDAR/CREES and POLSIS European Studies event.