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Introduction: Are British Ethnic Minorities Politically Under-represented?

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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.

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Parliamentary Affairs

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Oxford : Oxford University Press., 2013

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English

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0031-2290

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Volume 66 Issue 2 April 2013, p. 235-245

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Elections

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