Status equalization, reification, or threat alleviation: The effects of institutionalized power-sharing on ethnic salience — ISA 2018
Paper examining three mechanisms through which power-sharing institutions may raise or lower the political salience of ethnicity.
April 4, 2018
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At the ISA Annual Convention (San Francisco, April 4–7, 2018), I presented this paper distinguishing three theoretical mechanisms — status equalization, ethnic reification, and threat alleviation — through which power-sharing arrangements affect the political salience of ethnicity. I used survey evidence from divided societies to test which mechanisms operate under which institutional conditions.