Unequal Accommodation: An Institutionalist Analysis of Ethnic Claim-Making and Bargaining

Kiss, Tamás; Toró, Tibor; Székely, István

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78893-7_3

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“…This engagement can provide ethnic minorities with resources, political, and cultural support (Jenne 2007; Waterbury 2016; 2021). Simultaneously, kin state engagement splits the minority’s loyalties between the kin state and the state of residence (Waterbury 2020), threatening the minority’s unity (Jenne 2007), and undermining the possibility of minority–majority bargaining and cooperation within the state of residence (Kiss, Toró, and Székely 2018), ultimately compromising the agency and legitimacy of the minority leadership (Waterbury 2021). Cianetti (2018) argues that Estonia and Latvia suffer from democratic hollowness rooted in ethnic majority technocracy and minority exclusion.…”

Section: Understanding Democratic Backslidingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience

Rovný

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Recent years have witnessed significant democratic erosion, particularly in eastern Europe. This article suggests that the explanations of democratic backsliding, largely focused on historical and post-communist experiences of the this region, fail to note the striking and counterintuitive influence of ethnic politics. Departing from an observation that democratic practices have deteriorated significantly more in eastern European countries without mobilized ethnic minorities, this article argues for the central role of ethnic politics in buttressing democracy in the region. In countries with politically organized ethnic minorities, democratic institutions and practices remain more resilient. This is because mobilized ethnic minorities provide socially rooted electorates with almost an existential need for political rights and civil liberties. Active minority engagement in politics reinforces a constitutionally liberal pole of political competition and provides a counterbalance to the primary carriers of democratic regression—illiberal parties.

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Section: Understanding Democratic Backslidingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience

Rovný

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Next, we ask about the Hungarians-that is, the largest ethnic minority in Romania (Csata et al 2021). Although Hungarian minorities are regularly included in the government cabinet, Romanian-Hungarian relations have had episodic periods of tensions (Csergo 2007) with strong ethnic parallelism today (Kiss et al 2018)whether in education (Culic 2019), economic activities (Csata 2020), or media consumption (Csata et al 2023). Yet, mixed marriages are not uncommon (Gyurgyik et al 2010): 18.1% of Hungarian marriages in Transylvania 1992-2007 (the area with the large Hungarian population) are interethnic (Kiss 2016).…”

Section: Survey Experimental Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

To Marry or Not to Marry? Gender and Interethnic Group Trust

Shair‐Rosenfield

Liu

2023

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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While there has been work on whether women are more tolerant of outgroups, the ethnic politics literature has generally overlooked the role of gender in explaining interethnic trust. Whatever attention exists often focuses on the gender of the subject—that is, who is doing the trusting—with mixed results. One reason is that the object being entrusted is either not specified or assumed genderless. In this paper, we call attention to the gender of an important entrusted object in interethnic relations: children. We argue people are less willing to have their daughters—compared to their sons—marry an ethnic outgroup. Additionally, this willingness declines as the cultural distance widens. We test this using a survey experiment in Romania where we leverage the diversity in ethnicity and a gendered language structure. Our results highlight the importance of accounting for gender-based differences in studying interethnic trust.

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“…These basic minority rights have only slowly become accepted thanks to the governmental involvement and bargaining of the DAHR and Euro-Atlantic integration requirements. 22 Nevertheless, after 2010, Romanian extremists continued to stand up for the Romanian nation-state -for example, a nationalist group has repeatedly organised provocative marches in Hungarian-majority towns on the Romanian national holiday of 1 December. 23 Hungarian-Romanian interethnic and inter-state relations traditionally have a geopolitical dimension as well.…”

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Land of peaceful separatists – the Szeklerland in Romanian media

Zahorán

2023

Studies on National Movements

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In Romanian media, Szeklerland — a region in Central Romania with an ethnic Hungarian majority – is often evoked as a troublesome part of the country, where Romanians are discriminated against and Hungarian separatism undermines the authority of the state. This representation has endured since the fall of Communism in 1989, even though — unlike in other regions of Europe — the local Hungarian autonomist movement has always relied on peaceful means. The mainstream Romanian discourse, with its focus on the political efforts of Hungarian parties, the symbolic rivalry between Hungarian and Romanian elites, and the fight for economic resources has largely been unchanged. This conflict-oriented perspective makes for a skewed and ethnicized representation of Szeklerland, portrayed as an ‘intolerant region’. While the region witnessed only a minor Hungarian–Romanian conflict in March 1990, the topics of instability and constant tension pervaded the media discourse regarding Szeklerland during the 1990s. Even though the dominant nationalist discourse has become less virulent, this pattern has persisted with the advent of digital and new media formats. Many contemporary representations of Szeklerland on commercial television and social media platforms keep reproducing the stereotypes inherited from the 1990s. This article is based on a historical approach, and, through the analysis of several recent Romanian short documentary films about the Szekler area, highlights the reproduction of the region’s imagery and the most common strategies that feed this polarizing representation.

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Unequal Accommodation: An Institutionalist Analysis of Ethnic Claim-Making and Bargaining

Cited by 10 publications

References 58 publications

Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience

Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience

To Marry or Not to Marry? Gender and Interethnic Group Trust

Land of peaceful separatists – the Szeklerland in Romanian media

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