Političko predstavljanje nacionalnih manjina
Political representation of national minorities

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses various theoretical concepts of political representation, primarily of Hannah Pitkin, Karen Bird, Irene Bloemrad, and others. In addition, the classification of political parties Florian Bieber is presented in the context of the relations between parties and national minorities, which can be divided into four groups: mono-ethnic, ethnic with minority candidates, civic parties that are not oriented towards certain ethnic groups and multiethnic ones. The paper contains an overview of the factors that influence the political representation of national minorities, where the factors are particularly distinguished: the electoral system, the number of national minorities, territorial concentration, degree of integration into the political order, fragmentation and the number of political parties of national minorities, etc. The measures of affirmation like, easier registration of political parties of national minorities, guaranteed seats, party quotas, reduction or elimination of electoral censuses, etc. are analyzed.

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