Ethnicity and ethnic parties have often been portrayed as a threat to political stability. This book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups has potential to increase regime support and reduce conflict.
Innehållsförteckning
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Ethnic Minority Representation
1.1. Identity and Representation
1.2. Actual Representation
1.3. Partisan-Descriptive Representation
1.4. A Guide to the Book
2. Ethnic Representation as Politics
2.1. Ethnic Entrepreneurs
2.2. Explaining Partisan-Descriptive Representation
2.3. Consequences of Partisan-Descriptive Representation
3. Explaining Representation
3.1. Studying the Emergence of Ethnic Parties
3.2. Electoral Entry and Success
3.3. The Emergence of Ethnic Parties
3.4. Explaining Descriptive Representation
4. Ethnic Representation and Regime Support
4.1. Studying Regime Support
4.2. Patterns of Regime Support
4.3. Representation and Regime Support
5. Ethnic Representation and Conflict
5.1. Studying Conflict
5.2. Patterns of Protest
5.3. Quality of Representation and Protest
6. Partisan-Descriptive Representation in Perspective
Appendix A – Data Sources
Appendix B – Election Sources and Minority Parties
Appendix C – Ethnic Groups
Appendix D – Descriptives for Chapter 3
Appendix E – Descriptives for Chapter 4
Appendix F – The Hierarchical Selection Model
Appendix G – A Bayesian Multilevel Model
Appendix H – Causal considerations
Appendix I – Votes into Seats
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Om författaren
Julian Bernauer is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is interested in political representation, empirical patterns of democracy and quantitative methodology. His work has been published in
Comparative Political Studies, the
European Journal of Political Research and
Electoral Studies.
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