The Turkish Republic has been following an ignorant policy towards the rights of Kurds as ethnic minorities since its foundation in 1923. With the shift of the foreign policy towards the European Union membership, Turkey pursued a two-way policy toward minorities. First, Turkey transfers...

There have been two competing tropes regarding minority political identity in American society. In one, minorities-- African Americans and Latinos in particular--are suspected of being, at their core, un-American, by which we mean failing to reflect deeply rooted values regarding individualism...

The primary research question examined in this paper is whether the policy priorities of African-American members of Congress who were elected from majority-minority districts between 1980-2008 have different policy objectives than African-Americans who were elected in the same time period from...

How are public policies concerning minorities, such as ethnic, racial, or sexual minorities, categorically different from general public policies? Schneider and Ingram (1993) assert that the social construction of target population should be considered for these images are political and has...

Now that immigration reform is at the top of the Obama agenda and likely to be a key topic of debate in the next presidential election, we must evaluate how mass opinion on the issue will respond to proposed solutions and other related concerns. More importantly, we must recognize that the...

The literature tells us election rules can have an effect on the success of minority candidates. However, do campaign finance restrictions, term limits, and the type of district affect the strategies of minority candidates for local office? This paper will attempt to determine if minority...