Karen Bird, Thomas Saalfeld, Andreas M. Wüst (Eds.) |
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| The Political Representation of Immigrants and Minorities | |||
| Voters, Parties and Parliaments in Liberal Democracies |
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| Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science; 70 | |||
| 304 p., New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2011 | |||
| ISBN 978-0-415-49272-0 | |||
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Abstract
The book breaks new ground in the analysis of the political representation of immigrants and visible minorities both theoretically and empirically. It examines the upward trend in migrant and minority representation and demonstrates that there remain crucial differences across liberal democracies in the timing of these developments, in channels of access for minority representatives, in the policy focus and outcomes of minority representation, in the nature of the connections between minority representatives and minority communities and in the nature of their relationships with constituents at large. The volume will be divided in three main parts: Part I analyses immigrants and visible minorities as voters, who must be the starting point of any analysis of political representation. Part II deals with the stage of candidate selection within political parties, a crucial stage in the process of political representation, which is under-researched in the comparative study of visible-minority representation. Part III deals with immigrants and members of visible minorities, once elected to parliament and includes case studies on the Canadian Parliament, the US Congress, the German Bundestag and the United Kingdom Parliament. This original volume will of interest to students and scholars of migration and ethnicity studies and political science, especially those with an interest in political representation, democratic institutions, voting behaviour, party organisation, legislative behaviour and comparative politics.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Series editor’s preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
| 1 | Ethnic Diversity, Political Participation and Representation: a Theoretical Framework Karen Bird, Thomas Saalfeld, and Andreas M. Wüst |
| Part I | Immigrants and Members of Visible Minorities as Voters: Turnout and Party Choice |
| 2 | Voter Turnout amongst Immigrants and Visible Minorities in Comparative Perspective |
| 3 | Party Choices amongst Immigrants and Visible Minorities in Comparative Perspective Part |
| Part II | Immigrants and Members of Visible Minorities as Candidates for Elective Office |
| 4 | New Citizens – New Candidates? Candidate Selection and the Mobilisation of Immigrant Voters in German Elections Sara Claro da Fonseca |
| 5 | Minority Representation in Norway: Success at the Local Level, Failure at the National Level Johannes Bergh and Tor Bjørklund |
| 6 | Ethnic Inclusion or Exclusion in Representation? Local Candidate Selection in Sweden Maritta Soininen |
| 7 | Yes They Can: An Experimental Approach to Eligibility of Ethnic Minority Candidates in France Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj |
| Part III | Immigrants and Members of Visible Minorities as Legislators |
| 8 | Minority Representation in the US Congress Jason Casellas and David Leal |
| 9 | Patterns of Substantive Representation Among Visible Minority MPs: Evidence from Canada’s House of Commons Karen Bird |
| 10 | Presence and Behaviour: Black and Minority Ethnic MPs in the British House of Commons Thomas Saalfeld and Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou |
| 11 | Migrants as Parliamentary Actors in Germany Andreas M. Wüst |
| 12 | Epilogue: Toward a Strategic Model of Minority Participation and Representation Thomas Saalfeld, Andreas M. Wüst and Karen Bird |
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Karen Bird is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada.
Thomas Saalfeld is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bamberg, Germany.
Andreas M. Wüst is Research Fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Germany.