The trouble in Turkey

Kemal Goktas is a Turkish legal scholar, author and award-winning journalist who has written for Radikal, Sabah, Vatan, Milliyet, Cumhuriyet. Kemal is a former Journalist Fellow of the Reuters Institute. In 2018 he published this paper on reporting human rights violations in Turkey.

Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico

How does representation by politicians from specific communities influence these communities’ political participation? Analyzing a natural experiment from Mexico, in which a party uses lotteries to select candidates for public office, this paper presents new insights into how representation shapes the political participation of underrepresented segments of society.

Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy

Ethnic minorities make contemporary Europe increasingly diverse. The prevailing wisdom in research on ethnic politics is that ethnicity is a trouble-maker disrupting programmatic politics -- it tends to prioritize group identity over ideology, polity or policy, principle over compromise. In short, ethnicity is expected to be a source of particularistic tension. This talk takes a theoretical step back.
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