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. 

Joint CEDAR/CREES and POLSIS European Studies event 

Speaker: Jan Rovny (Sciences Po, Paris)

Discussant: Licia Cianetti 

Chair and Convenor: Tim Haughton