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Annotation In 2005, almost 700,000 immigrants acquired the citizenship of a member state of the European Union; over 600,000 became US citizens; nearly 100,000 became Australians and approximately 200,000 Canadians. 2005 was not an exceptional year. During the past decades, many advanced liberal democracies have become more ethnically diverse societies. This 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. 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 and unde

Author

THOMAS SAALFELD AND ANDREAS M.WUST, Karoline Bird, Thomas Saalfeld, Andreas M Wüst, Karen Bird, Thomas Saalfeld, Andreas M Wüst, Karen Bird, Thomas Saalfeld, Andreas M. Wust

Publisher

ROUTLEDGE

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136914126

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social_sciences