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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Ethnic Politics"”.
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Ethnic Politics and Constitutional Developments in Nigeria
… British colonial policies as the foundation of ethnic issues in Nigeria's contemporary politics. It describes how particular colonial policies impact modern Nigerian politics, reinforce division among ethnic groups, and influence voters’ decision when electing political leaders.</p>
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Post-Soviet ethnic politics and public goods provision
… the pattern of public goods distribution across ethnic groups in the states of the former Soviet Union? In this dissertation, I seek to demonstrate how the unique pattern of nation-state formation in the former Soviet states interacts with other institutional legacies in a manner that …
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Somos Indígena: Ethnic Politics and Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1694-1965
… of the 20th century. This dissertation explores ethnic politics in Hispanos struggle for culturally based land claims in New Mexico. It examines the repression of Pueblo-Hispano hybridity by Pueblo rights advocates, government bureaucrats, Indiophiles, Hispanophiles, and Hispano and Pueblo …
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Language rights, ethnic politics : a critique of the Pan South African Language Board
Bibliography: leaves 228-245.
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Living With Hierarchies: Religion, Language, and Personhood Among Wa Buddhists in Postsocialist China
… practices, multiple language use, and identity politics among Southwest China's rural Wa Buddhist people. These villagers are socially and historically positioned between the dominant Chinese state and transborder Buddhist power. After analyzing their ritual chants, talk, and individual …
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian State and the Alexandrian See: Indigenizing the Episcopacy and Forging National Identity, 1926--1991
… the historical church into two, the conflict and ethnic politics engulfing church leaders, the flight of bishops into exile as a result of such conflicts, and how the presence of a de jure patriarch and synod in the country and a de facto patriarch and synod in exile brought the unity of the …
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Language and the politics of ethnicity: The case of Ukraine
… movements and their crucial role in shaping ethnic politics. Such movements have swept through the former Soviet borderlands since the inception of glasnost', and remarkably enough, attesting to the centrality of the language question, the first revendication of every single republic in …
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Essays in Empirical Development Economics
… that convergent preferences - operating via ethnic politics - for ethnically oriented schools may be an important driver of the results, although I cannot rule out the possibility of mechanical explanations. In addition, as the increase in public goods provision may be ethnically oriented, …
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Conflict Complexity in Ethiopia: Case Study of Gambella Regional State
… them solely in terms of one variable, such as 'ethnic conflict‘. The contestation of the study is that contemporary conflicts in Ethiopia have remained protracted, untransformed and recurring. This is largely because the past processes which gave rise to them were not properly taken into account …
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Conflict Complexity in Ethiopia: Case Study of Gambella Regional State
… them solely in terms of one variable, such as 'ethnic conflict‘. The contestation of the study is that contemporary conflicts in Ethiopia have remained protracted, untransformed and recurring. This is largely because the past processes which gave rise to them were not properly taken into account …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
… be traced through the discourse of hua-ren (華人), ethnic Chinese in rather cultural sense than political sense, which distinguished Southeast Asian Chinese from Chinese in China. The discourse was generated from the debate among Chinese in both Malaya and Indonesia in the 1940s. The main elements …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
… be traced through the discourse of hua-ren (華人), ethnic Chinese in rather cultural sense than political sense, which distinguished Southeast Asian Chinese from Chinese in China. The discourse was generated from the debate among Chinese in both Malaya and Indonesia in the 1940s. The main elements …
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Natural Resources Development in the Republic of Sakha: Russia's Diamond Producing Region
… and a region with a particularly strong, ethnically-based local government. The current economic structure of the Republic of Sakha is primarily defined by an export-based diamond industry. In Sakha, enormous real and potential windfall from natural resource development amplifies the …
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The determinants of ethnic minority party formation and success in Europe
Why do some ethnic minority groups in Europe form political parties of their own in order to obtain political representation, whereas others choose to work within the confines of established, mainstream political parties? Further, why do some ethnic minority parties (EMPs) achieve electoral …
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The impact of outgroup trust on voting behavior in ethnically salient contexts
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01