Descriptive Representation and Political Participation: exploring Croatia's non-dominant groups electoral turnout
Descriptive Representation and Political Participation: exploring Croatia's non-dominant groups electoral turnout
Author(s): Timofey Agarin, Petr ČermákSubject(s): Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Politics and society, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatsko politološko društvo
Keywords: Political participation; Non-Dominant Minorities; Local Elections; Post-conflict Society; Croatia;
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Anali hrvatskog politološkog društva
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 49-70
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English