Trickledown politics: Do excluded ethnic groups benefit from non-violent national resistance campaigns?

Abstract

When do excluded ethnic groups obtain more political inclusion? Scholarship demonstrates that ethnic minority-based behavior is consequential for more inclusion. Yet we know little of the consequences of national resistance campaigns for ethnic minorities. Building on literature identifying non-violent national resistance (NVR) campaigns as consequential for outcomes such as democracy, this article identifies non-violent tactic use as key to understanding when national resistance campaigns trickle down to benefit excluded ethnic groups. It establishes empirically that an excluded ethnic group whose country experiences an NVR campaign has a higher probability of more political inclusion.

When do democratic transitions reduce or increase child mortality? Exploring the role of non-violent resistance

“…The participants in nonviolent movements are more likely to codify the emerging norms of nonviolent contestation into democratic institutions and it is this codification which allows the kind of electoral competition and negotiation that produces egalitarian policies in our models of political economy ( Chenoweth and Stephan, 2011 ). Nonviolent insurgency is more likely to lead to a stable and more inclusive democracy and to civil peace after the reform ( Bethke and Pinckney, 2021 ; Ives, 2021 ), which is likely to further decrease child mortality. Conversely, violent conflict will produce different kinds of political competition that are not predicated on democratic competence or even value-fit.…”