The Question of Citizenship in the Baltics

Chinn, Jeff; Truex, Lise A.

doi:10.1353/jod.1996.0003

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“…Postcommunist countries have been characterized by difficulties in creating market economies, democratic political institutions, and strong civil societies (Howard 2002). Furthermore, the transition from communist rule has often put minority populations in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe under particular duress--for example, Russians in Latvia and Estonia (see Chinn and Truex 1996).…”

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Can Institutions Build Unity in Multiethnic States?

2007

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Can Institutions Build Unity in Multiethnic States?

2007

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“…The political mobilization of groups, as well as their economic empowerment, increase the rights of group members (Chinn and Truex 1996;Dahl 1989;Lipset 1960;Marx 1996), and allow for more independence to demand a variety of different rights. As Janeen Baxter and Emily Kane (1995, 194) argue, the "ties of social, economic, and interpersonal dependence of women on men" at both the societal and individual level "affect both men's and women's interests and their interpretations of gender inequality."…”

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Structure, Empowerment and the Liberalization of Cross-National Abortion Rights

2008

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Economic, cultural, and political opportunity structures have been separately shown to facilitate and constrain abortion rights. We examine two central and related questions: First, which factors explain liberalization of different types of abortion laws? Second, which factor or set of factors is the most important in explaining abortion laws? The cross-national literature suggests a three-pronged explanation for the existence of abortion rights, including politics, economics, and culture. We parse these out into the structural and empowerment components of each, and posit a theory of rights in which empowerment factors are at least as important, if not more important, for explaining change than structural factors. To test this, we examine the impact of these components on the liberalization of abortion rights globally utilizing a distributed lag model. We find that an empowerment approach explains the liberalization of abortion laws better than a structural approach in terms of politics, but that a structural approach is a better predictor in terms of culture, and that both empowerment and structural factors are important predictors when economic factors are taken into account. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for understanding policy change and human rights on a global scale.

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“…Another visible result of Latvian discourses and narratives can be found in Latvia's much-discussed and controversial citizenship laws (Aasland 2002;Brubaker 1992;Chinn & Truex 1996), which initially conferred citizenship only on those people who could trace their ancestry to the pre-Soviet Latvia of 1940. This newly (re)constructed citizenry therefore represented Latvia's 'core nation', and was part of the drive to return Latvia to its 'normal' and 'European' self.…”

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Exploring Russian-Speaking Identity from Below: The Case of Latvia

Cheskin¹

2012

Journal of Baltic Studies

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The Question of Citizenship in the Baltics

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Can Institutions Build Unity in Multiethnic States?

Can Institutions Build Unity in Multiethnic States?

Structure, Empowerment and the Liberalization of Cross-National Abortion Rights

Exploring Russian-Speaking Identity from Below: The Case of Latvia

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