Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed
experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive …

What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin's seminal The Concept of
Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political …

Understanding the dynamics of the illiberal practices of liberal states is increasingly
important in Europe today. This book examines the changing relationship between …

This book aims to understand the European political debate about contentious issues,
framed in terms of religious values by religious and/or secular actors in 21st century. It …

Die jahrzehntelang vertretene politische und normative Festlegung Deutschland ist kein
Einwanderungsland ist Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts als Maxime für eine deutsche …

In this paper, we analyze Dutch policy debates that focused on the development of a distinct
program to advance the social and economic participation of ethnic minority women (where …

The headscarf issue became an arena of heated controversies over the politics of
integration and religious and cultural differences since the mid-1980s. Most interestingly …

Over the last two decades, political scientists and those interested in international relations
have increasingly been concerned with what appears to be an intertwining of religion and …

ABSTRACT The Austrian Parliament has passed three laws since 2018 that prohibit wearing
Muslim body-coverings in public. This departure from a formerly tolerant approach is an …

In this article, I examine the interplay between the institutionalization of Islam in Europe and
the transnationalism of Turkey's Directorate for Religious Affairs (Diyanet). Based on …