Ethnic Bargaining

Author : Erin K. Jenne
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801471803

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Ethnic Bargaining by Erin K. Jenne Pdf

In Ethnic Bargaining, Erin K. Jenne introduces a theory of minority politics that blends comparative analysis and field research in the postcommunist countries of East Central Europe with insights from rational choice. Jenne finds that claims by ethnic minorities have become more frequent since 1945 even though nation-states have been on the whole more responsive to groups than in earlier periods. Minorities that perceive an increase in their bargaining power will tend to radicalize their demands, she argues, from affirmative action to regional autonomy to secession, in an effort to attract ever greater concessions from the central government. The language of self-determination and minority rights originally adopted by the Great Powers to redraw boundaries after World War I was later used to facilitate the process of decolonization. Jenne believes that in the 1960s various ethnic minorities began to use the same discourse to pressure national governments into transfer payments and power-sharing arrangements. Violence against minorities was actually in some cases fueled by this politicization of ethnic difference. Jenne uses a rationalist theory of bargaining to examine the dynamics of ethnic cleavage in the cases of the Sudeten Germans in interwar Czechoslovakia; Slovaks and Moravians in postcommunist Czechoslovakia; the Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia, and Vojvodina; and the Albanians in Kosovo. Throughout Ethnic Bargaining, she challenges the conventional wisdom that partisan intervention is an effective mechanism for protecting minorities and preventing or resolving internal conflict.

Author : Magnus Öberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052546887

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The Onset of Ethnic War as a Bargaining Process by Magnus Öberg Pdf

Author : Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815775938

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Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa by Donald S. Rothchild Pdf

In this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. The book demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution, along with a political environment that fosters development.

Author : Natasha K. Warikoo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226400280

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The Diversity Bargain by Natasha K. Warikoo Pdf

We’ve heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they have just won the most competitive game of their lives and gained admittance to one of the world’s top universities. What Warikoo uncovers—talking with both white students and students of color at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford—is absolutely illuminating; and some of it is positively shocking. As she shows, many elite white students understand the value of diversity abstractly, but they ignore the real problems that racial inequality causes and that diversity programs are meant to solve. They stand in fear of being labeled a racist, but they are quick to call foul should a diversity program appear at all to hamper their own chances for advancement. The most troubling result of this ambivalence is what she calls the “diversity bargain,” in which white students reluctantly agree with affirmative action as long as it benefits them by providing a diverse learning environment—racial diversity, in this way, is a commodity, a selling point on a brochure. And as Warikoo shows, universities play a big part in creating these situations. The way they talk about race on campus and the kinds of diversity programs they offer have a huge impact on student attitudes, shaping them either toward ambivalence or, in better cases, toward more productive and considerate understandings of racial difference. Ultimately, this book demonstrates just how slippery the notions of race, merit, and privilege can be. In doing so, it asks important questions not just about college admissions but what the elite students who have succeeded at it—who will be the world’s future leaders—will do with the social inequalities of the wider world.

Author : Leonardo R. Arriola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107021112

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Multi-Ethnic Coalitions in Africa by Leonardo R. Arriola Pdf

Africa's long-ruling incumbents stay in power because opposition politicians struggle to secure the finances required to build electoral coalitions.

Author : Donald Rothchild
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815723165

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Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa by Donald Rothchild Pdf

Ethnic conflict in Africa is reaching critical levels. Governments are being toppled. National economies are collapsing. And the potential for civil unrest--even violent encounters--throughout the continent threatens to engulf not only Africa, but much of the world. Africa's salvation depends on the development and implementation of effective institutions of ethnic conflict management. In this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. To provide a clear picture of the current situation, Rothchild traces Africa's ethnic unrest back to its beginnings during the period of colonial rule, through the post-independence era, when governments built the institutions of government control and consolidated power; and into its more recent period when it is possible to discern greater democratic governance. Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution and a political environment that fosters economic development. It offers a compelling case for the use of both political incentives (power sharing, elections, and fiscal programs) and a variety of actions (including principles of inclusiveness, coercion, and punishment) to support reconciliation. This "carrot and stick" approach can be employed by a state to promote increased political bargaining while maintaining stability, and by outside intermediaries to cope with conflict brought on by the breakdown of domestic regimes.

Author : Barry Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078665092

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Bargaining in Diversity by Barry Fitzpatrick Pdf

Author : Brian Shoup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134079773

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Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States by Brian Shoup Pdf

This book develops a model that explains how and why interethnic bargains between rival groups can erode given different institutional configurations.

Author : Philip Roessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107176072

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Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa by Philip Roessler Pdf

This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.

Author : Haider Ala Hamoudi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226068794

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Negotiating in Civil Conflict by Haider Ala Hamoudi Pdf

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country’s first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Iraq are far from ideal: Iraq has long been racked by ethnic and sectarian conflict, which intensified following the American invasion and continues today. This severe division, which often erupted into violence, would not seem to bode well for the fate of democracy. So how is it that Iraq was able to surmount its sectarianism to draft a constitution that speaks to the conflicting and largely incompatible ideological view of the Sunnis, Shi’ah, and Kurds? Haider Ala Hamoudi served in 2009 as an adviser to Iraq’s Constitutional Review Committee, and he argues here that the terms of the Iraqi Constitution are sufficiently capacious to be interpreted in a variety of ways, allowing it to appeal to the country’s three main sects despite their deep disagreements. While some say that this ambiguity avoids the challenging compromises that ultimately must be made if the state is to survive, Hamoudi maintains that to force these compromises on issues of central importance to ethnic and sectarian identity would almost certainly result in the imposition of one group’s views on the others. Drawing on the original negotiating documents, he shows that this feature of the Constitution was not an act of evasion, as is sometimes thought, but a mark of its drafters’ awareness in recognizing the need to permit the groups the time necessary to develop their own methods of working with one another over time.

Author : Glen Fisher
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000043423439

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The Mindsets Factor in Ethnic Conflict by Glen Fisher Pdf

In the post-Cold War comunity, ethnic conflict has replaced national war as a primary concern. The passions that characterize these conflicts can seem incomprehensible to outsiders, and the author suggests that mindsets constitute the reality that has to be addressed in all ethnic conflicts.

Author : Jeff Lesser
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0822322927

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Negotiating National Identity by Jeff Lesser Pdf

A comparative study of immigration and ethnicity with an emphasis on the Chinese, Japanese, and Arabs who have contributed to Brazil's diverse mix.

Author : Christine Rack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135485368

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Latino-Anglo Bargaining by Christine Rack Pdf

This book shows the mechanisms by which cultural differences reinforce structural privilege and disadvantage in the informal process of mediated negotiation. Are all people equally likely to pursue their own material self-interest in the negotiation process used in small claims mediation? Did Latinos and Anglos bargain more generously with members of their own group? The central questions, derived from theories of ethnic and gender differences, concerned how, and to what degree; culture, structure, and individual choice operated to alter the goals, bargaining process and outcomes, expressed motivations and outcome evaluations for outsider groups. This book demonstrates how there are real cultural differences in the way that Latinos and Anglos pursue monetary justice that defy dominant assumptions that all culture groups are equally likely to maximize their own outcomes at the expense of others.

Author : Beata Huszka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134687848

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Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict by Beata Huszka Pdf

This book analyses how national independence movements’ rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state. Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects internal ethnic relations and analyses how politicians interpret events and present arguments with the intention to mobilize their constituencies for independence. With in-depth case studies on the Slovenian, the Croatian and the Montenegrin independence movements, and by looking at cases from Indonesia and Spain, the author investigates how rhetoric affect internal ethnic relations during secession and how events and debate shape each other. The author demonstrates how in some cases of self-determination elites push for a higher level of sovereignty in the name of economic advancement, whereas in other cases, self-determination movements refer to ethnic identity and human rights issues. Explaining how and why certain discourses dominate some independence movements and not others, Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history, nationalism, ethnic conflict and discourse analysis.

Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351550482

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Routledge Handbook of African Politics by Nic Cheeseman Pdf

Providing a comprehensive and cutting edge examination of this important continent, Routledge Handbook of African Politics surveys the key debates and controversies, dealing with each of the major issues to be found in Africas politics today. Structured into 6 broad areas, the handbook features over 30 contributions focused around:The State Identity Conflict Democracy and Electoral Politics Political Economy & Development International Relations Each chapter deals with a specific topic, providing an overview of the main arguments and theories and explaining the empirical evidence that they are based on, drawing on high-profile cases such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. The Handbook also contains new contributions on a wide range of topical issues, including terrorism, the growing influence of China, civil war, and transitional justice, making it required reading for non-specialists and experts alike. Featuring both established scholars and emerging researchers, this is a vital resource for all students of African Studies, democratization, conflict resolution and Third World politics.