BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡//Events//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240724T123700Z DTSTART:20241030T140000Z DTEND:20241030T153000Z SUMMARY:Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition and Democracy UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/209751 DESCRIPTION: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.\n 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. \n Speaker: Jan Rovny (Sciences Po, Paris) Discussant: Licia Cianetti  Chair and Convenor: Tim Haughton  This is a Joint CEDAR/CREES and POLSIS European Studies event. \n LOCATION:Muirhead 121 STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR