Descriptive representation and political participation : exploring Croatia's non-dominant groups electoral turnout
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Annals of the Croatian Political Science Association |
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| Web | článek - open access |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.20901/an.16.03 |
| Keywords | Political participation; Non-Dominant Minorities; Local Elections; Postconflict Society; Croatia |
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| Description | The series of ethnic conflicts in the Western Balkans over the 1990s involved primarily the constituent nations of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, and later, Albanians and Macedonians. Ethnic violence has equally affected other numerically smaller groups residing in the geographic areas affected by conflict between the dominant, de facto state-founding ethnic groups. The paper investigates the continuous importance of ethnic identity for political participation of non-dominant groups affected by the ethno-political dynamics of dominant groups in post-conflict Croatia. Analyses of the political mobilisation of non-dominant groups in regions previously affected by conflict offer evidence that their ethno-political mobilisation reflects the continuous importance of identity-politics in the context of highly ethnicised institutions ensuring political representation at national and municipal levels. |
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