2014
DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2014.974371
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Ethnic practice in electoral politics: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 1990 Presidency elections

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“…This is because of optional multiple votes that voters could cast (from one up to seven), and the ambiguous category of 'Others' that was co-opted by ethnic parties. A detailed analysis of these elections can be found in Kapidžić (2014 ) and will not be presented here.…”
Section: Election Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This is because of optional multiple votes that voters could cast (from one up to seven), and the ambiguous category of 'Others' that was co-opted by ethnic parties. A detailed analysis of these elections can be found in Kapidžić (2014 ) and will not be presented here.…”
Section: Election Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, municipalities divided between two large ethnic groups (high ethnic polarization) were less likely to vote for cross-ethnic options and non-ethnic candidates, even if this did not affect the vote for candidates of their own ethnic group. Thus, electoral incentives for interethnic voting in the Presidency elections had much more effect in highly diverse municipalities (Kapidžić, 2014).…”
Section: The Influence Of Electoral System Design In Democratic Transmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…EFI and EPI , on the other hand, represent the ethnic fractionalization index and the ethnic polarization index. As previously noted, both have been extensively used in the literatures on ethnic conflict and elections (Montalvo and Reynal-Querol 2005; Esteban and Ray 2011; Esteban, Mayoral, and Ray 2012; Kapidžić 2014). Ethnic fractionalization index represents the probability that two randomly chosen individuals from the municipal population belong to different ethnic groups.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, conflict is much more likely in communities with high levels of ethnic polarization, in other words, where usually two ethnic groups are nearly equal in size and competing for limited public resources. This line of reasoning has been applied in one of the rare data-driven studies of 1990 elections in the Yugoslav republics, where Kapidžić (2014) found that cross-ethnic and non-ethnic voting on the communal level in the 1990 elections to the presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina was positively related to ethnic diversity and negatively related to ethnic polarization.…”
Section: Deriving Hypotheses In the Context Of 1990 Yugoslaviamentioning
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