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148119
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What impact does violence have on ethnic identity? Do acts of violence tend to create greater segmentation and “hardening” of identities among ethnic groups? In this article, we empirically assess the claim that violence inevitably leads to the hardening of ethnic identity (which we operationalize as expressions of ethnic particularism over a national identity). Using survey data from Kenya covering the period 2005–2008, integrated with geocoded data on conflict events in Kenya during that period, and employing multilevel logistic regression analysis, we do not find support for the contention that ethnic identity hardens inevitably as the result of violence. Rather, our findings suggest support for a more nuanced view of the effects of violence on ethnic identity.
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168836
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This article assesses the effects of candidate gender, incumbency, and local ethnic composition on the electoral performance of ethnic party candidates in mayoral elections in Romania and Slovakia. The results of my statistical analysis indicate that candidate gender has a minimal effect on electoral performance, whereas incumbency and local ethnic composition have a large and statistically significant effect. My findings also suggest that more experienced incumbents do not outperform less experienced incumbents, male and female incumbents enjoy a similar incumbency advantage, and ethnic party incumbents are able to attract voters from outside their target ethnic constituency.
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176567
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The term “ethnic outbidding” refers to an auction-like process where ethnically-based political parties adopt extreme ideological positions as a means of distancing themselves from rival parties. While a lot of research references ethnic outbidding, very little empirical analysis actually assesses the ability of the outbidding model to explain the actions of ethnic political parties. More generally, existing research on outbidding fails to account for ideological variation among ethnic parties. In this article, we review the research on ethnic party tactics and propose a strategy for implementing ideological data into future ethnic politics research. Employing local-level voting data for Romania and Slovakia, we show that ideological variables have a significant degree of explanatory power. This finding implies that it is only by treating ethnic party ideologies and tactics as exogenous independent variables that we can properly assess the validity of the outbidding model and the existence of outbidding.
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