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Choudhry, Piush

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“…32 from extremist parties in an "ethnic outbidding" process. 39 Accordingly, politics remains a zero-sum game for each ethnic party. Because there are penalties rather than incentives for inter-ethnic cooperation, the short-term stability of a particular inter-ethnic coalition and the long-term stability of the institutional system as a whole are undermined.…”

Section: Consociational Democracy and Proportional Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, incentives are created to appeal across ethnic lines in order to acquire enough second preferences from other ethnic groups to secure a majority. 45 As a result, "[t]here is an ex ante effect that might moderate ethnic divides among voters." 46 Empirically, vote pooling systems have been met with mixed results.…”

Section: Integrationist Democracy and Alternative Votementioning

confidence: 99%

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Reframing Kurtz's Painting: Colonial Legacies and Minority Rights in Ethnically Divided Societies

Brower

2015

SSRN Journal

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Minority rights constitute some of the most normatively and economically important human rights. Although the political science and legal literatures have proffered a number of constitutional and institutional design solutions to address the protection of minority rights, these solutions are characterized by a noticeable neglect of, and lack of sensitivity to, historical processes. This Article addresses that gap in the literature by developing a causal argument that explains diverging practices of minority rights protections as functions of colonial governments' variegated institutional practices with respect to particular ethnic groups. Specifically, this Article argues that in instances where colonial governments politicize and institutionalize ethnic hegemony in the pre-independence period, an institutional legacy is created that leads to lower levels of minority rights protections. Conversely, a uniform treatment and depoliticization of ethnicity prior to independence ultimately minimizes ethnic cleavages postindependence and consequently causes higher levels of minority rights protections. Through a highly structured comparative historical analysis of Botswana and Ghana, this Article builds on a new and exciting research agenda that focuses on the role of long-term historio-structural and institutional influences on human rights performance and makes important empirical contributions by eschewing traditional methodologies that focus on single case studies that are largely descriptive in their analyses. Ultimately, this Article highlights both the strength of a historical approach to understanding current variations in minority rights protections and the varied institutional responses within a specific colonial government.

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Section: Consociational Democracy and Proportional Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Integrationist Democracy and Alternative Votementioning

confidence: 99%