Description
Book Synopsis"This is a book about contemporary European politics and the demographics of Muslim political candidacies."--Provided by publisher.
Trade Review"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"
"Winner of the 2018 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, International Science Council"
"With a sophisticated analysis of thousands of elections in Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom, [Rafaela Dancygier] shows that European political parties have been ruthlessly pragmatic in attracting Muslim votes."
---Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs"Rafaela Dancygier’s
Dilemmas of Inclusion asks political scientists to take the idea of vote-maximizing parties seriously once again. . . . Dancygier provides extensive and convincing evidence for the idea that electoral incentives are the best explanation for cross-national and within-country variation in parties’ inclusion of Muslim minorities, both in who they nominate and how they promote their candidates."
---Colin Brown, EuropeNow"This book is a most welcome addition to the social science literature on contemporary European politics specifically, and minority political representation in electoral politics generally. In terms of political responsibility, it aptly shiftsthe blame away from European Muslims."
---Fatma Muge Gocek, Social Forces
