Status equalization, reification, or threat alleviation: The effects of institutionalized power-sharing on ethnic salience — CRS 2017
Paper examining three mechanisms through which power-sharing institutions may raise or lower the political salience of ethnicity.
September 18, 2017
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At the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2017 (Oxford, September 18–19), I presented this paper distinguishing three theoretical mechanisms — status equalization, ethnic reification, and threat alleviation — through which institutionalized power-sharing affects ethnic salience. I argued that identifying which mechanism is active in a given case is essential for predicting whether power-sharing will reduce or reproduce ethnic division over time.