| No 49
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Ethnic Conflicts in the Context of Democratizing Political Systems: Theses |
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Publication (Journal) |
Theory and Society 20 no. 5 (October 1991): 581-602 |
| Published in |
Netherlands, 1991 |
| Language |
English |
| Abstract |
General theses regarding the politicization of ethnicity with an emphasis on the influence of inchoate democratization on the contention of Soviet ethnic groups and on the significance of political and central state policy presented. Structural analysis is used to construct a model of ethnic relations in Russia that begins prior to perestroika (restructuring), then moves to an analysis of democratization,culminating in an analysis of the prospects for multiethnic democracy in the Russian Republic. Several other multiethnic nations (e.g., Cyprus, the U.S., and Ethiopia) prone to ethnic conflict are examined, and several sources of destabilization within democratic multiethnic societies are identified; changes in the ethnodemographic composition of particular regions; and the incompatibility of disparate political cultures. It is concluded that the absence of radical reform in multiethnic states may facilitate the preservation of inherently unstable regimes. |
| Availability |
Szabo Ervin Library, Budapest |
| Discipline(s) |
international relations
, political sociology
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