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- Title
Introduction: Are British Ethnic Minorities Politically Under-represented?
- Authors
Fieldhouse, Edward; Sobolewska, Maria
- Abstract
Obama's 2008 presidential victory in the USA triggered a debate in Europe and the UK as to whether someone from an ethnic minority could achieve similar success in national politics. The 2010 General Election saw a small increase in ethnic minority candidates, but a near doubling of the number of black and Asian members of parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons. During 2010 and 2011, the University of Manchester organised a seminar series on ethnic minorities' political representation in Britain. This symposium features some of the highlights of that series. In this article we summarise some of the key arguments.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MINORITIES; POLITICAL participation of minorities; MINORITY politicians; GREAT Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; LEGISLATORS
- Publication
Parliamentary Affairs, 2013, Vol 66, Issue 2, p235
- ISSN
0031-2290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pa/gss089