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.

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Ethnic Minority Representation1.1. Identity and Representation1.2. Actual Representation1.3. Partisan-Descriptive Representation1.4. A Guide to the Book2. Ethnic Representation as Politics2.1. Ethnic Entrepreneurs2.2. Explaining Partisan-Descriptive Representation2.3. Consequences of Partisan-Descriptive Representation3. Explaining Representation3.1. Studying the Emergence of Ethnic Parties3.2. Electoral Entry and Success3.3. The Emergence of Ethnic Parties3.4. Explaining Descriptive Representation4. Ethnic Representation and Regime Support4.1. Studying Regime Support4.2. Patterns of Regime Support4.3. Representation and Regime Support5. Ethnic Representation and Conflict5.1. Studying Conflict5.2. Patterns of Protest5.3. Quality of Representation and Protest6. Partisan-Descriptive Representation in PerspectiveAppendix A - Data SourcesAppendix B - Election Sources and Minority PartiesAppendix C - Ethnic GroupsAppendix D - Descriptives for Chapter 3Appendix E - Descriptives for Chapter 4Appendix F - The Hierarchical Selection ModelAppendix G - A Bayesian Multilevel ModelAppendix H - Causal considerationsAppendix I - Votes into SeatsEndnotesBibliographyIndex