Is there a “best” way to represent minorities?
The best way to represent minorities and indigenous peoples is to ensure that the minority parliamentarians are legitimate and influential and present in large enough numbers to be able to function as minority representatives and general legislators. How you produce such parliamentarians is less clear and varies from nation to nation, society to society. In some countries reserved seats may be the best method while in others drawing multi-ethnic districts may produce more legitimate and diverse parliamentarians. Certain states may successful encourage parties to run an ethnically mixed slate of candidates while others will give access to small parties which are defined by their ethnic minority interests.
