The Law and Politics of Diversity Management: A Neoinstitutional Approach

Marko, Joseph

doi:10.1163/22116117-90001611

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“…The problem with the term is that it is too nebulous and lacks any uniform application; the scope and content of the notion remain a question mark. There is no single or commonly accepted understanding of what diversity management is about and no standard terminology (Marko 2008;Rechel 2009). From the scholarly perspective, the approach is still in the making; in the practical domain, politicians and legal processionals do not necessarily address the regulation of diversity as a single and specific area of human activity.…”

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Transnistrian Nation-Building: A Case of Effective Diversity Policies?

Osipov

Vasilevich²

2019

Nationalities Papers

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This article addresses the reasons why ethnic diversity has never posed a challenge to the stability of Transnistria (also called the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic), an unrecognized state that broke away from Moldova during the collapse of the Soviet Union. We analyze the major societal and political patterns relevant to ethnic relations in the region and focus on the structure, content, and effectiveness of Transnistrian legislation concerning ethnic and linguistic diversity along with the practices of its implementation. In our view, formal and informal ethnic divisions do not hinder the political stability of Transnistria. We conclude that the stability of ethnic relations in Transnistria in part results from a deliberate policy aimed at managing diversity. This policy provides for the dependence of the populace on the state apparatus achieved through a dense plethora of government-orchestrated activities as well as the reproduction of nonconflictual, eclectic, and thus socially acceptable national narratives inherited from the Soviet past.

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Transnistrian Nation-Building: A Case of Effective Diversity Policies?

Osipov

Vasilevich²

2019

Nationalities Papers

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“…“Managing” ethnic identities differs from “nation-building” in that it recognizes a plurality of ethnic groups with certain rights to use their own language and preserve their own customs and does not promote a linear trend towards homogeneity (Smith 2013). Ethnicity management shares with nation-building the assumption that the state is the dominant actor in the process, manipulating group identities in order to achieve the goals of the central executive (Marko 2007). The terms “ethnicity management” or “diversity management” are widely used in Western personnel management, in the context of promoting a diverse workforce.…”

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Thirty Years of Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet States

Rutland

2023

Nationalities Papers

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This introduction to the special issue looks back at 30 years of nation-building in the post-Soviet states. Initial hopes that national self-determination would reinforce democratization proved misplaced. While that synergy worked well in the Baltic states, elsewhere authoritarian leaders embraced nationalism, while democracies like Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine lost control of parts of their territory to secessionist movements backed by Russia. Each of the post-Soviet states promoted a national language (except for Belarus) and forged a new historical narrative for their “imagined community,” but in most cases they remained multi-ethnic and multi-lingual communities. In recognition of this persisting ethnic diversity, nation-building was accompanied by policies of ethnicity management. The international economic environment was rapidly changing due to globalization, posing new challenges for nation-builders. The gender dimension is important to the new national identities being forged in the post-Soviet space: the categories of race and class, less so. The article concludes with a review of the salient features of each of the newly-independent states.

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“…In states and societies characterized by ethnic cleavages it is difficult to find a suitable label for a minority policy regime that can accommodate both minority and majority claims. Marko provides a useful outline of different scenarios, from solutions that offer minorities institutional equality through autonomy to those that promote national unity through assimilationist policies (Marko, 2008). 'Assimilation' has little appeal to minority political actors.…”

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Minority Inclusion in Central and Eastern Europe

Csergő¹,

Vangelov²,

Vizi³

2018

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The question of how governments deal with ethnic diversity is fundamental to the future of peace and democracy in Europe. The way this question is articulated and addressed has changed significantly, as European governments and social actors respond to problems of regional security, domestic political contestation, and economic well-being. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the collaborative efforts of European organizations – primarily the Council of Europe (CoE), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the European Union (EU) – provided a historic opportunity for the development of common European standards about minority inclusion across the whole spectrum of political and economic rights and opportunities available to state majorities. Europeanization – which involved the deepening of transnational institutional structures in member states, the enlargement of the EU to include an increasing number of countries from the former Soviet bloc, and the diffusion of European norms and practices in the EU and its neighbourhood – had a profound impact on the evolution of state-minority relations across the continent. Although Europeanization reaches all aspects of life in EU member and aspiring member states, the governance of ethnic diversity has evolved in diverse directions across the continent, rather than gradually converging toward common standards.

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The Law and Politics of Diversity Management: A Neoinstitutional Approach

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Transnistrian Nation-Building: A Case of Effective Diversity Policies?

Transnistrian Nation-Building: A Case of Effective Diversity Policies?

Thirty Years of Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet States

Minority Inclusion in Central and Eastern Europe

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