Minority Response to Ethnic Democracy : Poles in Lithuania after EU Accession
Journal: Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Year: 2017

This article focuses on the evolution of Polish minority responses to Lithuanian minority policies in the post-EU-accession period. Stateminority conflicts in Lithuania have not generated violence or minority radicalization, despite continuing discontent among members of the state’s Polish minority (which constitutes Lithuania’s largest ethnic minority population) and the failure of the Lithuanian state to resolve the causes of discontent. Employing Smooha’s concept of ethnic democracy, the arti