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Rather than the logic of “ethnic diversity deficit” applied in most analyses of the theme, I explain post-Soviet public goods provision through a logic of ethnic domination and its relationship to other salient features of sociopolitical organization, including informal social networks and ethnodemographic configurations. The unintended institutionalization of an enduring ethnic titular / non-titular binary combines with the Soviet legacy of informal social networks of access that are endemic throughout the region and structure state-society relations. Thus, I propose that Soviet institutional legacies determine both the supply and demand sides of public goods and service provision: ethnic titular political domination ensures preferential targeting to titular coethnics, while the continued significance of informal networks of access disproportionately allows elite and non-elite titulars to demand state resources successfully. I demonstrate the effects of this relationship in three empirical chapters. Analyzing large-N data from Kyrgyzstan, I show that ethnic Kyrgyz titulars are not only more positive than non-titulars in their evaluations of public goods provision in general, but also that more extensive integration into informal social networks exacerbates this intergroup distributive differentiation. My next chapter presents qualitative data collected during fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan and illustrates the causal mechanisms and grounded understandings of the previous chapter’s findings. The third empirical chapter presents an analysis of large-N data from eight post-Soviet countries in which I explore the extent to which individual coethnicity and coregionality with national leaders is predictive of public goods outcomes. As suggested by much existing research, the findings are dependent on the outcome one studies. 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My next chapter presents qualitative data collected during fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan and illustrates the causal mechanisms and grounded understandings of the previous chapter’s findings. The third empirical chapter presents an analysis of large-N data from eight post-Soviet countries in which I explore the extent to which individual coethnicity and coregionality with national leaders is predictive of public goods outcomes. As suggested by much existing research, the findings are dependent on the outcome one studies. Coethnicity and coregionality with national leaders is related to education outcomes in an additive fashion. However, there is no relationship coethnicity or coregionality and first year child survival. 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