Failure of Multiculturalism? Disenfranchisement of Religious Minorities and the Origins of Democracy

• In Event: The Economic, Political, and Military Drivers of State Development

Brief Overview

This paper argues that the disenfranchisement of ethnoreligious minorities was causally linked to the significant variation in the trajectories of democratization in the United Kingdom, France, Imperial Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.

Author

• Sener Akturk, Koç University