Ethnic Politics in Ranked and Unranked Systems: An Exploratory Analysis

Gisselquist, Rachel M.

doi:10.1080/13537113.2013.847598

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“…Research has stressed instead that socioeconomic inequalities are based at least partially in racial prejudice and has highlighted the complex interplay of race and class in social, economic, and political realms. 28 Moreover, many contemporary scholars (and even Gilberto Freyre, in some contrast to his racial democracy thesis) have documented a deeply hierarchical society, where a culture of deference to authority and high status might well produce persistent prefer- 25 See Figure ences for whiter candidates. 29 Along with any discrimination among white voters towards black or brown candidates, such deference to white candidates might tend to produce a political class that is whiter than the population.…”

Section: Assessing Race-based Preferencesmentioning

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Race, Resources, and Representation: Evidence from Brazilian Politicians

Bueno¹,

Dunning²

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Typescript prepared by the Authors and Anna-Mari Vesterinen. Terms of use: Documents inThe United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable development. The Institute began operations in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, as the first research and training centre of the United Nations University. Today it is a unique blend of think tank, research institute, and UN agency-providing a range of services from policy advice to governments as well as freely available original research.The Institute is funded through income from an endowment fund with additional contributions to its work programme from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, 00160 Helsinki, FinlandThe views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute or the United Nations University, nor the programme/project donors. Abstract:What explains the persistence of racial or ethnic inequalities in political representation, in the absence of strongly politicized racial or ethnic cleavages? This paper uses new data to demonstrate a substantial racial gap between voters and politicians in Brazil. We show that this disparity is not plausibly due to racial preferences in the electorate-for instance, deference towards white candidates, or discrimination against non-whites. Nor do barriers to candidate entry or discrimination by party leaders likely explain the gap. Instead, we document the importance of persistent resource disparities between whites and non-whites-especially, differences in personal assets and in campaign contributions. Our findings show how the power of numerical racial minorities may persist in democracies, even in the absence of racialized politics, and highlight the role of investments by economic elites in a setting in which race and class substantially overlap.

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Section: Assessing Race-based Preferencesmentioning

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Race, Resources, and Representation: Evidence from Brazilian Politicians

Bueno¹,

Dunning²

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…Persistent inequality, which implies a deeply-entrenched social order, would generate the strongest response from dominant groups to attempts to alter it. Furthermore, societies are not always clearly ranked or unranked; degrees of ranking may matter and ranking is better conceptualized as a continuous as well as a longitudinal variable (Gisselquist, 2013).…”

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Inequality, ethnicity, and status in a ranked society: Intermarriage in Mindanao, the Philippines

McDoom

2019

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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A tension exists between the normative aspiration for greater equality between ethnic and religious groups in society and the empirical reality that ascendant groups benefit from the unequal social order. I explore how this tension manifests in the social sphere by examining how ethnic inequality shapes the formation of interethnic ties in an ethnically-ranked society. I examine intermarriages in Mindanao, a deeply-divided and ethnically-ranked society in the Global South. I find ethnic inequality is associated with both integrative and distancing forces. When ethnic inequality is low, individuals from high-ranked groups tend to inmarry, but low-ranked groups to outmarry. I suggest this divergence reflects the importance of status hierarchies. Intermarriages represent status mobility for subordinate groups but status threat for dominant groups. Ingroup preference intensifies for highranked groups because they are anxious to preserve the distinctiveness of group boundaries and their status superiority. I establish these findings using census micro-data on over two million marriages.

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“…Grusky, 1994;Kao & Thompson, 2003;Noel, 1968), 'ranked' and 'unranked' ethnic groups (e.g. Gisselquist, 2013;Horowitz, 1985), and 'categorical' inequalities (Tilly, 1999).…”

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Horizontal inequality as an outcome

Canelas

Gisselquist

2018

Oxford Development Studies

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A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an independent causal variable, rather than an outcome of various processes. We offer conceptual, theoretical, and empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as an outcome and challenging assumptions of fixity. We first consider explanations for variation drawing on the literature on horizontal inequality, as well as on ethnicity more broadly. We then explore how horizontal inequality can be measured using survey and census data, and present analysis based on two datasets providing information on inequality in terms of educational attainment (HI-E) for the 1960s to 2000s. These data suggest both a general trend toward decline in HI-E over time and considerable regional variation. This article serves also to introduce and frame the contributions to this special section.

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Ethnic Politics in Ranked and Unranked Systems: An Exploratory Analysis

Cited by 15 publications

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Race, Resources, and Representation: Evidence from Brazilian Politicians

Race, Resources, and Representation: Evidence from Brazilian Politicians

Inequality, ethnicity, and status in a ranked society: Intermarriage in Mindanao, the Philippines

Horizontal inequality as an outcome

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