Status equalization, reification, or threat alleviation: The effects of institutionalized power-sharing on ethnic salience — Jan Tinbergen Conference 2019
Paper examining three mechanisms through which power-sharing institutions may raise or lower the political salience of ethnicity.
June 24, 2019
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At the Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference (The Hague, June 24–26, 2019), I presented this paper distinguishing three theoretical mechanisms — status equalization, ethnic reification, and threat alleviation — through which power-sharing arrangements affect how salient ethnicity is in everyday politics. I connected these mechanisms to observable implications for survey-based measures of ethnic identity and political behavior.