Ethnicity in Time

Singh, Prerna; Hau, Matthias vom

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“…The mechanisms by which ethnic diversity is hypothesized to undermine the institution of social policies in these studies is by weakening solidaristic ties and by creating political conflict (Jäntti, Jaynes, & Roemer, 2014). These theoretical assumptions as well as empirical associations have been the subject of strident challenges (Banting, Johnston, Kymlicka, & Soroka, 2006; Singh, 2011; Singh & vom Hau, 2016; Taylor-Gooby, 2005a, 2005b, 2005c; van Oorschot, Arts, & Gelissen, 2006).…”

Section: National Theories For National Welfarementioning

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The Theoretical Potential of the Within-Nation Comparison: How Sub-National Analyses Can Enrich Our Understandings of the National Welfare State

Singh

2017

American Behavioral Scientist

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This article seeks to showcase the previously underexplored theoretical potential of the recent “sub-national turn” in comparative politics. Specifically, I hope to delineate how theories derived to explain variation in an outcome across sub-national units can enrich our repertoire of theories to explain variation in the same and/or related outcomes across national units. I show the potential of this method of theory generation through an analysis of social welfare, a specially apposite outcome for this purpose because it has been studied rigorously at the both the national and sub-national levels of analyses. I argue that sub-national analyses can, on the one hand, help us refine and rethink national-level theories for the same outcomes. They can push us to nuance and extend established national theories and show us how the same variables and mechanisms that have been hypothesized to explain cross-country variations might work differently, even in opposite directions, within countries. On the other hand, sub-national analyses can push us past the established repertoire of national-level explanations to bring to light new (or forgotten) theories. In this way, this article seeks to challenge cross-country analyses as the exclusive domain of theory building in comparative politics.

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The Theoretical Potential of the Within-Nation Comparison: How Sub-National Analyses Can Enrich Our Understandings of the National Welfare State

Singh

2017

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…In particular, for young individuals, it may a¤ect their evaluation of social interaction in a society at a time when their individual identities are being shaped. This can have consequences not just for the individual but also for society at large (Singh and vom Hau 2016). Ethnic diversity has often been linked to poor public good provision and con ‡ict.…”

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Social diversity and bridging identity

Garcia-Alonso

Wahhaj

2021

Oxford Economic Papers

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We investigate within a model of cultural transmission how policies or shocks that affect social diversity within a population affect social cohesion and segregation. We develop the concept of ‘bridging identity’, an individual trait that (i) positively affects utility in culturally diverse social groups but is immaterial in homogeneous groups and (ii) is fostered in those born in culturally diverse social groups but not in those born in homogeneous groups. We show that medium levels of immigration lead to higher bridging identity in the population; and, for a given immigration target, social segregation is decreasing in the time allowed for achieving this target. If the level and pace of immigration are attuned to existing levels of bridging identity, it is possible to sustain, for the long run, social groups that are culturally diverse. This contrasts with Schelling’s models of residential segregation that typically lead to increasing segregation over time.

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“…All minority groups included in our analysis have preserved distinct identities for centuries, and in a number of countries the relations between them and the majority group have been hostile and discriminating. One possible explanation for this is the long-term state policy being the exogenous determinant of majority-minority relations (Singh & vom Hau, 2016;Wimmer, 2016). Accordingly, we would then expect that the hostility and discriminating attitudes towards the minorities are based on pure cultural distinctiveness, which nevertheless leads to prejudice that is coded in terms of social status.…”

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The Effects of Neighbourhood Disorder on Life Satisfaction of Ethnic Majority and Minority Group Members: Evidence From 12 Central-Eastern European Countries

Letki

Toruńczyk-Ruiz

Kukołowicz³

2019

SPB

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While research has shown a negative relation between neighbourhood disorder and indicators of well-being, this evidence comes predominantly from Western European countries, relies on subjective measures of disorder, and is indifferent to ethnic specificities. In this paper, we examine the relationship between neighbourhood disorder and life satisfaction across neighbourhoods in 12 Central-Eastern European countries. We use an exogenous measure of disorder, and account for the presence of respondents’ own ethnic group in the neighbourhood, as we propose that it may condition the effect of disorder on life satisfaction. Using survey data covering 18,743 residents of 897 local areas across 12 countries, we found that neighbourhood disorder was negatively related to life satisfaction for both ethnic majority and minority respondents, over and above individual and neighbourhood characteristics. This effect was, however, differently moderated by ethnic in-group share in the neighbourhood for ethnic majorities and minorities. Among ethnic majority members, disorder had a negative effect on their life satisfaction only when there were high levels of co-ethnics' presence in the neighbourhood, but not at low levels. By contrast, for minority members, the negative effect of neighbourhood disorder was significant at lower of levels of co-ethnic concentration, but not at its higher levels. These results suggest that whereas for minority groups the presence of co-ethnics buffers the negative effects of the aversive environment on well-being, for ethnic majority members it plays an opposite role. We argue that members of the dominant, majority population find having to attribute disorder to their in-group problematic, which results in lower life satisfaction.

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Ethnicity in Time

Cited by 79 publications

References 127 publications

The Theoretical Potential of the Within-Nation Comparison: How Sub-National Analyses Can Enrich Our Understandings of the National Welfare State

The Theoretical Potential of the Within-Nation Comparison: How Sub-National Analyses Can Enrich Our Understandings of the National Welfare State

Social diversity and bridging identity

The Effects of Neighbourhood Disorder on Life Satisfaction of Ethnic Majority and Minority Group Members: Evidence From 12 Central-Eastern European Countries

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