Crossing the Rubicon: Strategies and Motivations behind Cross-ethnolinguistic Vote-seeking in the Brussels Capital Region

Blanckaert, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/17449057.2024.2322868

Ethnopolitics

2024

DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2024.2322868

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Crossing the Rubicon: Strategies and Motivations behind Cross-ethnolinguistic Vote-seeking in the Brussels Capital Region

Benjamin Blanckaert

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Out of Many, One? Exploring Ethnolinguistic Identity Appeals in the Brussels Capital Region

Blanckaert,

Caluwaerts

2024

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

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Consociationalism promises to resolve tensions among groups in deeply divided societies by constructing shared identity that transcends ethnic divisions. Yet there is no guarantee that this will happen, and empirical studies testing this claim yield inconsistent results. We examine the extent to which political parties appeal to shared identities within a consociation, focusing on the Brussels Capital Region (BCR) in Belgium. The BCR constitutes a regional consociation aimed at addressing divisions between Dutch and French speakers. Based on a quantitative analysis of party programs, and a qualitative analysis of thirty interviews with Brussels MPs, our findings indicate that parties do indeed appeal to a common sense of belonging, often on issues that have a low ethnolinguistic salience. When addressing contentious community matters, however, we observe that Dutch-speaking parties (especially ethnic outbidders) prioritize their own linguistic group identity more than Francophone parties.

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Out of Many, One? Exploring Ethnolinguistic Identity Appeals in the Brussels Capital Region

Blanckaert,

Caluwaerts

2024

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

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Crossing the Rubicon: Strategies and Motivations behind Cross-ethnolinguistic Vote-seeking in the Brussels Capital Region

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Out of Many, One? Exploring Ethnolinguistic Identity Appeals in the Brussels Capital Region

Out of Many, One? Exploring Ethnolinguistic Identity Appeals in the Brussels Capital Region

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