In Sarajevo, a predominantly Muslim city, dozens of streets named after Communist revolutionaries were renamed after Muslim heroes, and political parties stressing Muslim identity gained large constituencies.
AARP, founded in 1958, needs to get its groove back and narrow a policy agenda that has become too broad, too busy and too ambitious, with multiple and competing identities, interests and constituencies.
Though the modern Troubles are over, every election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone reverts to this ancient quarrel: the struggle between unionists hanging on to their British identity in the frontier constituency and nationalists determined to bring the region into an all-Ireland entity.
Metropolitan Jonah pursued a unified Orthodox identity among the various ethnic constituencies (e.g., Romanian, Albanian, and Russian) within the OCA and in other North American Orthodox denominations.
The Obama phenomenon raises the question of what will happen when the Hispanic constituency, whose ethnic identity has also been carefully cultivated by the Democratic Party, decides it is no longer satisfied with black men or white women professing to speak for its distinct interests and runs "one of its own" in 2012 or 2016.
But she mused about the need to create a European democratic public rather than purely national constituencies, and a "public European identity".
Thus Democrats cannot be confident of overcoming the politics of white identity simply by turning out their core constituencies.
This commentary argues for the value of using the concept of constituency in analysing the political identity of a humanitarian organisation and its process of political engagement.
While I agree that people seeking national or statewide office must have a vision that will address and resonate with all constituencies, it is a misconception that identity politics is defeated or repudiated by this last election.
From the Left wing to the Right wing (of both Hindus and Muslims, the two largest religious denominations in India), all political parties played identity politics and pandered to their respective conservative constituencies in India.
