The American pluralist minority-politics model fails to transfer directly to Britain and France

Evidence

There are of course problems in applying the American experience to other societies. If we take the examples of Britain and France, perhaps the most important of these problems is the ideological character of party politics and their preoccupation with discouraging caucusing along sectional interests. This was evident in the response of the Labour Party in the 1980s and 1990s to pressures to increase minority representation in its institutions, and more generally in its responses to other forms of minority mobilization. France has traditionally been hostile to identity politics, which are seen as dangerous to the unity of the Republic. In this sense the pluralist model which is found within the z^merican situation cannot be simply applied. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2159

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to literature on why US ethnic-politics models don’t translate to European contexts; also relevant to France’s republican universalism debates.