Kanchan Chandra

Kanchan Chandra is professor of politics at New York University. She is the editor and lead author of Democratic Dynasties (2016) and Constructivist Theories of Ethnic Politics (2012), and the author of Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India (2007).

October 2024, Volume 35, Issue 4

Majoritarianism Without Majorities

Majoritarian nationalism is a defining feature of our time. If we are to resist ethnonationalist leaders trying to recast our societies into imagined majorities, we must revise our conception of democracy and the exclusion inherent in majority rule.