Descriptive representation and political participation : exploring Croatia's non-dominant groups electoral turnout / Timofey Agarin, Petr Čermák.
Descriptive representation and political participation : exploring Croatia's non-dominant groups electoral turnout / Timofey Agarin, Petr Čermák.
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The series of ethnic conflicts in the Western Balkans over the 1990s in- volved 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 geo- graphic 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.; Niz etničkih sukoba na zapadnom Balkanu devedesetih godina primarno je uključivao konstitutivne narode federativne jugoslavenske države: Srbe, Hrvate, Bošnjake te, kasnije, Albance i Makedonce. Etničko nasilje zahvatilo je i brojčano male skupine na zemljopisnim područjima koja su bila pogođena sukobom dominantnih etničkih skupina koje su de facto bile utemeljitelji država. Rad istražuje važnost etničkog identiteta za političku participaciju nedominantnih skupina koje su bile pogođene etnopolitičkom dinamikom dominantnih skupina u postkonfliktnoj Hrvatskoj. Analiza političke mobilizacije nedominantnih skupina u regijama koje su prethodno bile pogođene sukobom pokazuje da njihova etničko-politička mobilizacija odražava trajnu važnost politike identiteta u kontekstu vrlo etniciziranih političkih institucija koje jamče političko predstavljanje na nacionalnoj i lokalnoj razini.