Institutionalization of Ethnocultural Diversity and the Representation of European Muslims
| Autor: | Yury Katliarou, Sener Akturk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Institutionalisation media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Legislature 02 engineering and technology 0506 political science Original data Representation (politics) Variation (linguistics) State (polity) Political science Political economy Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Polity media_common Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Perspectives on Politics. 19:388-405 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0986 1537-5927 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1537592720001334 |
| Popis: | We seek to explain variation in the descriptive representation of Muslim minorities in national legislatures, relying on an original data set that includes 635 seats filled by Muslim-origin MPs in the lower chambers of national parliaments of twenty-six European polities in three legislative cycles between 2007 and 2018. We argue that the image of a polity as a union of multiple ethnocultural groups, reflected in concrete state policies and institutional arrangements, may be conducive to better descriptive representation of Muslim minorities, who were not originally envisioned as one of the communities constituting the nation. The results of multivariate regression analysis provide support for our hypothesis that the extent to which ethnocultural diversity is recognized and institutionalized helps explain variation in the levels of descriptive representation of European Muslims. We supplement our findings with congruence testing in four brief case studies: Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Bulgaria. |
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