Racial (Dis)enfranchisement as a Distinct Act of (De)democratization: Comparative Historical Analysis of the United States, Germany, and Austria

• In Event: Voice and (Dis)enfranchisement in Europe (Co-sponsored with Section 9: European Politics)

Brief Overview

Suffrage extension to racial minorities was understudied in the comparative politics of democratization. In this paper, I seek to address this gap by studying the enfranchisement of racial minorities in the US, Germany, and the lack of it in Austria.

Author

• Fatih Umit Cetin, University of Massachusetts-Amherst