The included, the diminished, and the excluded: The uneven effects of ethnic power-sharing on the legitimacy of the political system — ISA 2019
Paper examining how ethnic power-sharing institutions create divergent legitimacy perceptions across included, diminished, and excluded groups.
March 28, 2019
conferenceISApower-sharinglegitimacyethnic politics
At the ISA Annual Convention (Toronto, March 28–30, 2019), I presented this paper arguing that power-sharing arrangements produce systematically uneven effects on political legitimacy. I distinguished between groups that are included in power-sharing deals, those that are symbolically diminished by them, and those that remain excluded — showing that each category generates distinct legitimacy perceptions with different conflict implications.