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Immigrants and their descendants are becoming increasingly visible in Germany's political life. What determines immigrant political incorporation into parliamentary positions over time and in specific contexts? The article focuses on the regional parliaments of Germany's 16 states. A comparative analysis enables us to specify whether, how and under what conditions factors thought to impact levels of immigrant representation are indeed influential and how they interact with local and situational conditions. The article first outlines immigrant representation in Germany's states over time. It then discusses several possible explanations for the striking variation between states. Rather than one key factor, it is found that interactions between demographic, institutional, cultural and political conditions account for different levels of immigrant representation in Germany's state parliaments. Adapted from the source document.

In order to analyze the character of the New Labour project in GB, the article looks at conceptual ideas (the roles of communities, state, individual; the concept of the welfare state), pragmatic responses to voters' concerns & the specific economic & labor market conditions in post-Thatcherite GB. It argues that Tony Blair's New Labour is a path dependent British project as well as an attempt to address some major challenges of our times of change. While breaking with core ideas of post-war social democracy, it remains linked to the social democratic tradition. 56 References. Adapted from the source document.

Many European cities have significant shares of immigrants among their inhabitants. Their unequal access to the political life of the cities, and the country overall, is a major democratic deficit. This introduction to the symposium emphasises the need to consider immigrants as actors in politics and explains the specific relevance of the local level. While the focus of the symposium is on European countries with a longer history of immigration, the introduction also outlines key features of immigrants' political rights and participation in other parts of Europe. Adapted from the source document.