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.

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.

Nursing aspects of health mobilization.

Material prepared for a training course held at OCDM Staff College, Battle Creek, Michigan, April 23-28, 1961.

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.

Soviet mobilization readiness and the U.S. defense program [microform] : hearings before the Defense Policy Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, hearings held September 8 and 14, 1988.

"H.A.S.C. no. 100-86."

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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