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Explaining ethnic mobilisation in post-communist countries / Gherghina, Sergiu; Jiglau, George

Gherghina, Sergiu	Journal Article
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2011.

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The complex dynamics of inter-ethnic relations in post-communist countries leads to a puzzle: why do some ethnic minorities mobilise to obtain political representation whereas others do not? We use qualitative comparative analysis to capture complex causal patterns explaining the formation of ethnic parties and to analyse the combined effect of social, economic and political variables. Our article bridges a significant gap in the existing literature that usually focuses on simple explanations for the existence of ethnic parties. The analysis reveals that the political mobilisation of ethnic minorities is explained by institutional elements often underemphasised in existing theories and research.

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Ethnic Mobilisation ; Post - Communist Countries ; Political Mobilisation

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Nationalism, ethnic conflict, and job competition: non-Russian collective action in the USSR under perestroika / Kolsto, Pal

Kolsto, Pal	Journal Article
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2008.

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The article examines the effects of job competition on ethnic relations within a multinational state. It argues that demographic increase leads to competition for blue-collar jobs while an increase in the number of graduates from higher education leads to competition over elite jobs. In the first case, people risk unemployment, in the second, blocked career opportunities. Mass-level unemployment may lead to anger-driven mass riots, while an intelligentsia will formulate more rational strategies to eliminate threatening competitors from the labour market. One such strategy is to insist that the state ought to be a national state, in which the national elites will be in control. While questions of identity no doubt also may have an enormously mobilising power in times of national resurgence, identity issues are normally intimately intertwined with interest politics. These mechanisms are traced in the history of ethnic mobilisation in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states during and after perestroika

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Nationalism ; Former Soviet Union ; Ethnic Mobilisation

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Status Shift and Ethnic Mobilisation in the March 1956 Events i / Blauvelt, Timothy

Blauvelt, Timothy	Journal Article
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2009.

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The large-scale demonstrations that took place in Georgia in early March 1956 following Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress were the first significant expressions of public protest and civil disobedience in the Soviet Union for decades, and they also bore a clearly nationalistic character. Based primarily on materials from the Georgian KGB and Party archives and interviews with former Party officials and participants of the events, this article examines potential interpretations of these events derived from elite incorporation and ethnic mobilisation theories.

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Georgia ; Ethnic Mobilisation ; Status Shift ; March 1956 Events

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