How ethnicity matters in Russian elections: ethnic minorities and support for the United Russia party

White, Allison C.

doi:10.1080/15387216.2015.1120680

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“…41 It has also been argued that ethnicity has played a role in Russian electoral politics, as United Russia has relied on the support of ethnic regions, including (but not only-White 2016 ) through electoral manipulation (Goodnow et al . 2014 ), although results have been in uenced by regional contextual characteristics (White 2015 These respondents did not refer to a possible nexus between the promotion of a minority culture and the formulation of policies conducive to it through an inclusive process. Other respondents interpreted the same question on impact on ethnic policies as inquiring over possible cooperation between ethnic institutions and the authorities in formulating (federal or regional) inter-ethnic policies or strategies.…”

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National in Form, Putinist in Content: Minority Institutions ‘Outside Politics’

Prina

2018

Europe-Asia Studies

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Over the past three decades, Russia has developed a set of institutions for the management of ethno-linguistic diversity based on the principle of 'national cultural autonomy'. This article examines the positioning of these institutions within Russian society, arguing that while state-endorsed discourses locate them within the culture sphere-treated as distinct from political processes-there is in fact an interpenetration of 'politics' and 'culture'. The article identi es why these institutions position themselves within the 'cultural sphere' while also supporting the country's meta-narratives on inter-ethnic tolerance and, effectively, the political status quo. Soviet legacies of inter-ethnic relations continue to be socially embedded, yet within this framework some dissenting voices are also discerned.

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National in Form, Putinist in Content: Minority Institutions ‘Outside Politics’

Prina

2018

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…Meanwhile, Scott’s concept of patronage (), characterized as direct, reciprocal, hierarchal, and iterational (long‐term) Hicken (), has been used by Aspinall and Sukmajati () as well as Simandjuntak () to understand elections in Indonesia; by Weiss () in Malaysia; and by Stewart and Strathern () in Papua New Guinea. The mature concepts of ethnicity and kinship have likewise been widely used, such as by Aspinall () in Indonesia; White () in Russia; Joseph () in Lebanon; Cunningham and Phillips () in North Carolina; and by Bilska‐Wodecka and Matykowski () in Poland. Also widely used is the concept of “market exchange” (Schaffer & Schedler, ).…”

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Territory, Class, and Kinship: A Case Study of an Indonesian Regional Election

Haryanto

Sukmajati

Lay

2019

Asian Politics and Policy

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This article examines electoral strategies used by candidates in regional elections in new Indonesian jurisdictions. It uses the 2017 regional election in Maybrat, West Papua as a case study. It explores the candidates’ strategies and motivations in context, as well as their results. Research indicates that similar election strategies were used by candidates, such as exploiting elements of territory, class, and kinship. However, their emphases differed: the losing candidate had positioned class solidarity centrally in their campaigns, while the victorious candidate had emphasized spatial solidarity. This research also observed the exploitation of latent tensions over the location of the regional capital in the new jurisdiction of Maybrat, where the creation of new resources, services, and public offices intensified long‐standing contestations. Ultimately, distancing themselves from electoral logics that target individual voters, the candidates in Maybrat targeted specific groups, a strategy representative of Papuan society’s communal tendencies.

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“…As it has been demonstrated in the literature (see, for example : Magaloni 2006), the most favourable environments for electoral mobilization are those constituencies which are dominated by poorer voters, who are more sensitive to electoral mobilization, as well as rural settlements where citizens are bound together in tight social networks. The other powerful type of tight social network is based on ethnic ties; and it has been argued that non-Russian ethnic groups are more inclined to maintain stronger traditional ("primordial") ties to their ethnic communities than is the case for ethnic Russians (Moraski and Reisinger, 2003;White 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%