Damjan Mandelc
Biographic Data
| ID | 6914125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damjan Mandelc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damjan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandelc |
| SIGNATURE | MANDELC D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1265-3465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Migration as Democratic Boundary-Making
Over the past decade, far-right parties have moved from the political margins into the mainstream of several European democracies. This article examines how migration functions not primarily as a demographic driver of electoral change, but as a discursive resource through which democratic boundaries are redefined. Drawing on a qualitative comparative analysis of political speeches, party manifestos, and public debates in selected European countri…
Religion, Migration, and the Far-Right
This article examines how populist radical right parties (PRR) in three contrasting European contexts—Slovenia, France, and Poland—strategically instrumentalize Christianity within their anti-immigration agendas. Rather than using religion as a matter of faith, these parties recast Christianity as a cornerstone of national and European identity, positioning it in opposition to Islam and non-European migration. The study argues that such instrumen…
Ethnicised Citizenship and the Post-Socialist Model of Diversity Management
This article examines how Slovenia’s post-communist approach to diversity management marginalizes minorities from the former Yugoslav republics. The constitution grants cultural rights and parliamentary representation to Italian and Hungarian minorities, but communities from Bosnia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Croatia are excluded from these protections. Recognised mainly by religious affiliation, these groups have limited access to form…
Perforated Democracy
This article explores the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the state-building process in Slovenia and the context of the specific phenomenon -the erasure that took place in Slovenia in the early 1990s. It reconstructs the socio-historic and political contexts in which the independence of Slovenia occurred. While describing the state-building process, the process of democratisation and the dilemmas about minority protection in Slovenia -in…
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Perforated Democracy
This article explores the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the state-building process in Slovenia and the context of the specific phenomenon -the erasure that took place in Slovenia in the early 1990s. It reconstructs the socio-historic and political contexts in which the independence of Slovenia occurred. While describing the state-building process, the process of democratisation and the dilemmas about minority protection in Slovenia -in…
Religion, Migration, and the Far-Right
This article examines how populist radical right parties (PRR) in three contrasting European contexts—Slovenia, France, and Poland—strategically instrumentalize Christianity within their anti-immigration agendas. Rather than using religion as a matter of faith, these parties recast Christianity as a cornerstone of national and European identity, positioning it in opposition to Islam and non-European migration. The study argues that such instrumen…
Ethnicised Citizenship and the Post-Socialist Model of Diversity Management
This article examines how Slovenia’s post-communist approach to diversity management marginalizes minorities from the former Yugoslav republics. The constitution grants cultural rights and parliamentary representation to Italian and Hungarian minorities, but communities from Bosnia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Croatia are excluded from these protections. Recognised mainly by religious affiliation, these groups have limited access to form…
Migration as Democratic Boundary-Making
Over the past decade, far-right parties have moved from the political margins into the mainstream of several European democracies. This article examines how migration functions not primarily as a demographic driver of electoral change, but as a discursive resource through which democratic boundaries are redefined. Drawing on a qualitative comparative analysis of political speeches, party manifestos, and public debates in selected European countri…
Politics (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 works) · Bosnian (1 works) · Central European national history (1 works) · Citizenship (1 works)