The Politics of Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Representative Democracy and the Policy Process

Abstract

This panel looks at Indigenous peoples' engagement in mainstream democratic institutions. What are the patterns, conditions and challenges to Indigenous participation in the policy process and in electoral politics at the national and/or local levels?

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