When an extreme majority determines policy
Interview in Horizons, the Swiss Research Magazine, on how ethnonationalist majority movements threaten minority rights and how power-sharing can moderate their demands.
In this piece in Horizons — The Swiss Research Magazine (December 2024), I was featured alongside Lars-Erik Cederman in a roundup on peace research, discussing my work on majority nationalism and its consequences for minority rights. I argued that ethnonationalist movements represent an underexamined yet growing threat to stable, pluralist democracies, and that coalition governments with built-in power-sharing arrangements offer one of the most effective mechanisms for moderating the exclusionary demands of nationalist parties. The feature examined six research projects across ETH Zurich and other Swiss institutions exploring different dimensions of conflict prevention and peacebuilding.