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- Title
Granting Local Voting Rights to Non-Citizens in Estonia and Latvia: The Conundrum of Minority Representation in Two Divided Democracies.
- Authors
Cianetti, Licia
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the Estonian and Latvian policy-making process with regard to non-citizens' right to vote in local elections. While in Estonia the right of all permanent residents to vote in local elections was already enshrined in the 1992 constitution, in Latvia non-citizens are to this day completely disenfranchised, and this issue is still a source of heated political debate. Why did Estonia and Latvia take different courses with regard to their non-citizens' political rights? And, more crucially, what can this tell us about minority substantive representation in Estonia and Latvia? I approach the Estonian and Latvian cases through the method of process tracing and argue that, taken together, they reveal the existence of a voice/polarization dilemma which blurs the boundaries between competing theories of minority political representation.
- Subjects
LATVIA; ESTONIA; DEMOCRACY; CIVIL rights; MINORITIES; SUFFRAGE; MINORITY politicians; ELECTIONS
- Publication
Journal on Ethnopolitics & Minority Issues in Europe, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
1617-5247
- Publication type
Article