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. There is also no shortage of conflicts with an ethnic flavor. Yet, this book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should necessarily overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups arguably has potential to increase regime support and reduce conflict. The book studies partisan-descriptive representation of up to 130 ethnic groups in central and eastern European democracies. Ethnic minority parties are found to only run and succeed if they can expect electoral support sufficient to pass the electoral threshold. Conditional on gender and strategies of representation, ethnic representation increases satisfaction with democracy among the minority population. While protest rises given moderate levels of representation, it is reduced once ethnic groups have access to executives. In conclusion, a proportional vision of power-sharing between ethnic groups receives some qualified empirical support.

To know or not to know: collection and use of racial and ethnic data in Federal assistance programs; a report.

Prepared by Cynthia Norris Graae, Program analyst, Office of Federal Civil Rights Evaluation.

Bilingual/bicultural education : a privilege or a right? = Educacion bilingue/bicultural : un privilegio o un derecho? : A report of the Illinois State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

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Geographic, demographic and ethnic background on Laos /

Mode of access: Internet.

Men and heart disease : an atlas of racial and ethnic disparities in mortality /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Housing discrimination study : analyzing racial and ethnic steering : prepared for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development /

"HUD-1325-PDR"--P. 4 of cover.

Tobacco use among U.S. racial/ethnic minority groups : African Americans, American Indians and Alaska natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Hispanics : a report of the Surgeon General.

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Races and ethnic groups in American life,

"Published under the direction of the President's research committee on social trends."--Foreword.

A letter to Lord Langdale on the recent proceedings in the House of commons on the subject of privilege.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men /

Lettered on cover: Mankind.

Who cares about human relations? A selective and critical bibliography deeply concerned with the human relations of family, community, ethnic, and racial groups, religion, education, business, and industry.

Mode of access: Internet.

Le privilege pour les dixmes novalles : concedé, maintenu et conservé: Où, premierement, seront rapportées plusieurs Bulles de nos SS.PP. les Papes, pour en saire voir la Concession, et en suite ... auec vn Appendix contenant diverses Fondations, Donations, Traittez & autres Titres, qui ont seruy de sondement aux deux Parties de ce Recueil.

Contiene además, con pag. y sign. propias: "Arrest au profit des Religieux Chartreux de N.D. du Parq aou Diocese du Mans 1569 17 Decembre" (7 p., [1] en bl.; []4) y "Decission authentique faite en la Rotte de la Cour de Rome, pour monstrer que les Curez Primitifs qui ont priuileges, peuuent prendre [et] perceuoir dans leurs Paroisses toutes les Oblations [et] dixmes des terres Nouales, à l'exclusion de leurs Vicaires perpetuels" ([12] p.; A6)