Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: This study analyzes the contextual nature of ethnogroup mobilization in Europe.The focus is on ethnopolitical protest, a form of group mobilization involving peaceful protest.The analysis is based on the " Minorities at Risk" dataset which consists of data on ethnic minorities that are most vulnerable to discrimination practices within European countries.The paper assesses the status of necessity and sufficiency for several conditions in relation to both the presence and the absence of strong ethnopolitical protest for 29 selected minority groups: democracy level, political discrimination, geographical concentration, ethnic fractionalization and the degree of national pride among members of the minority group.The fuzzy-set analysis highlights that minority groups are engaged in strong, but peaceful protest when they (1) are mobilized in a democratic environment, (2) live in a county with a high degree of ethnic fractionalization, and (3) either have weak feelings of national pride or are ethnically concentrated in compact territorial locations.On the other side of the outcome, minority groups without strong ethnopolitical protest (1) have strong feelings of national pride among members of the group, (2) face no political discrimination, and (3) reside in emerging democracies.These results demonstrate the utility of fuzzy set analysis for the investigation of causal complexity in the area of ethnic mobilization. I.1 Perrenialism explain ethnic mobilization from the perspective of the group ethnic continuity shaped by a set o values and beliefs.For more concise information regarding this debate see Smith (1986), Huntington (1996); Smith (1999: 5-27) 2 Primordialism sees ethnic mobilization from the lenses of groups' primal features and their historical heritages.The primordial objects such as biological characteristics, religion, language, territory are powerful factors productive of conflict.The primordialist incentives of conflict were treated among others in: Horowitz (2000; 57); Horowitz (2004; 72-73); Grosby (1994; 168).3 Constructivists consider mobilization as deriving from social and political practices, where a set of social instruments bust the intensity and direction of ethnic movements.See also: Anderson (1991: 16); Posner (2005).
Author: Victor Cebotari
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2573125957