Articles by Nenad Stojanović

August 17, 2021

Why are people with migrant backgrounds so poorly represented in political office in Europe?

Nenad Stojanović

In Switzerland, poor political representation of people with a migrant background is not simply the result of prejudice and deliberate penalising by voters. Lea Portmann and Nenad Stojanović show that it is also caused by voters systematically favouring native ingroup candidates

Nenad Stojanović

SNSF Professor of Political Science, University of Geneva

Nenad's research focus is on democracy in multicultural societies, currently with an emphasis on direct democracy, populism and deliberative mini-publics.

He is the author of Multilingual Democracy: Switzerland and Beyond (Rowman & Littlefield / ECPR Press, 2021).

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