Ivan Krastev (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna and St. Antony's College)
In a democracy, numbers matter. When numbers change, power changes hands. The democratic narrative insists that power changes hands primarily because voters change their minds. But it could also be because a sizeable group of new voters joins the polity and reshapes it. My lecture considers how the demographic anxiety and the fears that governments can use immigration as an instrument to elect their people can turn European societies against democracy.
