Status Equalization, Reification, and Threat Alleviation: Power-Sharing and Ethnic Boundaries — EPSA 2022
Paper examining three mechanisms through which power-sharing shapes the politicization of ethnic boundaries, presented at EPSA 2022.
June 23, 2022
conferenceEPSApower-sharingethnic salienceethnic boundariesinstitutions
At the 12th EPSA Annual Conference (Prague, June 23–25, 2022), I presented in Session 55 "Ethnic Conflict, Power-sharing, and Intergroup Contact" this paper distinguishing three theoretical mechanisms — status equalization, ethnic reification, and threat alleviation — through which institutionalized power-sharing affects ethnic boundaries and their politicization. I connected these mechanisms to observable implications for how individuals perceive and enact ethnic group membership under different institutional regimes.