Ethnic Politics, Regime Support and Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe

Ethnicity and ethnic parties have often been portrayed as a threat to political stability. This book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups has potential to increase regime support and reduce conflict.

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Julian Bernauer is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is interested in political representation, empirical patterns of democracy and quantitative methodology. His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research and Electoral Studies.

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Acknowledgements

1. Ethnic Minority Representation
   1.1. Identity and Representation
   1.2. Actual Representation
   1.3. Partisan-Descriptive Representation
   1.4. A Guide to the Book
2. Ethnic Representation as Politics
   2.1. Ethnic Entrepreneurs
   2.2. Explaining Partisan-Descriptive Representation
   2.3. Consequences of Partisan-Descriptive Representation
3. Explaining Representation
   3.1. Studying the Emergence of Ethnic Parties
   3.2. Electoral Entry and Success
   3.3. The Emergence of Ethnic Parties
   3.4. Explaining Descriptive Representation
4. Ethnic Representation and Regime Support
   4.1. Studying Regime Support
   4.2. Patterns of Regime Support
   4.3. Representation and Regime Support
5. Ethnic Representation and Conflict
   5.1. Studying Conflict
   5.2. Patterns of Protest
   5.3. Quality of Representation and Protest
6. Partisan-Descriptive Representation in Perspective
   Appendix A Data Sources
   Appendix B Election Sources and Minority Parties
   Appendix C Ethnic Groups
   Appendix D Descriptives for Chapter 3
   Appendix E Descriptives for Chapter 4
   Appendix F The Hierarchical Selection Model
   Appendix G A Bayesian Multilevel Model
   Appendix H Causal considerations
   Appendix I Votes into Seats
   Endnotes
   Bibliography
   Index