ERC Starting Grant · 2024
The Paradox of Political Marginalisation: Young People and Political Power
Political marginalisation, understood as the systematic underrepresentation of social groups in political office, constitutes a major democratic problem. By betraying the ideal of equal voice, it biases political decision making, challenges democratic legitimacy, and ultimately risks creating political alienation and discontent. Yet, we fail to understand the persistence of the problem because extant research has not probed the underlying norms that exist in a society about what political power is, who can hold it, and how it can be exercised. Thus, while we know that members of underrepresented groups do not reach out for power to the same extent as others, we do not have a theory that can…
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