IPSA RC14 Politics and Ethnicity

IPSA Research Committees Colloquium: Minorities under Siege? Plural Societies Facing Plural Challenges
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Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism - https://cup.org/4pIcbBn

- @felixschulte.bsky.social, @mscanti.bsky.social & Maria Ackrén

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This questioning of the science is something @tagarin.bsky.social, Elliott Hill and I discuss in our analysis of the party politics of the #LoughNeagh crisis, recently published in @bjpir.bsky.social. #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thursdays are for Searches: The Russian Repression Calendar in Occupied Crimea - KonKoop Authoritarian control follows a grim calculus. The literature on state repression shows that coercion is not random but operates under a highly strategic logic. Russia’s repressive campaign in its occupied territories in Ukraine is no exception. Shortly after the illegal occupation and annexation of Crimea in February and March 2014,…

Russian repression against Crimean #Tatars in occupied Ukraine follows a pattern.
Using a new geo-coded event dataset, researchers Elmira Muratova & @felixschulte.bsky.social map human rights violations & explain why repression is often carried out on Thursdays. More on the #KonKoop DataLab blog ⤵️

IPSA Releases New Open-Access Companion to Political Science
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Congrats and looks great @allimcculloch.bsky.social & @drsiobhanbyrne.bsky.social just in time for my Christmas list 🎅 👍

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Have nationalists and unionists set Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party up to fail by handing it the task of tackling a blue-green algae crisis at Lough Neagh? Read @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social and Elliott Hill's analysis in this new #BJPIR article.

The next brief in our Dayton at 30 series is now out: Bonn Voyage: Is it Time to Close the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia & Herzegovina? @inclusivepeaceora.bsky.social
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Article abstract reads: Nature protected areas are hailed as an institutional solution to the global biodi-versity crisis. However, conservation entails local economic costs for some com-munities and benefits for others. We propose that the establishment of protectedareas in Africa follows an ethno-political logic which implies that governmentsdistribute protected areas such that their ethnic constituencies are shielded fromtheir costs but enjoy their benefits. We test this argument using continent-widedata on ethnic groups’ power status and protected area establishment since inde-pendence. Difference-in-differences models show that political inclusion decreasesnature protection in groups’ settlement areas. However, this effect is reversed forprotected areas that plausibly generate tourism income. We also find that ethno-political inclusion is linked to legal degradation of protected areas. Our find-ings support long-voiced concerns by activists that politically marginalized groupscarry disproportional costs of conservation. This has implications, given the likelyexpansion of protected areas the decades to come.

🚨New publication alert! 🚨

Our article “The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa” is now out in @thejop.bsky.social 🎉-- fantastic collaboration with Stephen Dawson, @carlmc.bsky.social & Aksel Sundström

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Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies This introduction outlines an agenda for research on protest and power-sharing. Power-sharing scholarship has ignored grassroots contentious politics, viewing protest as a threat to the top-down mo...

Our intro to the 2026 Ethnopolitics special issue on Protest & Power-Sharing is out. It brings together great scholars & cases — Lebanon, Bosnia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Northern Ireland — on how protest & power-sharing interact. Grateful to contributors: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Power-sharing between adoptability and durability insights from Lebanon and Iraq Under what conditions do power-sharing agreements come into being? Once agreed, how might an agreement’s perceived acceptability affect its ability to deliver functional governance and durable peac...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲! 🚨
🇱🇧🇮🇶𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿-𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 between adoptability and durability insights from 𝗟𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗾
🔓Read the new #openaccess article by @allimcculloch.bsky.social, Soeren Keil, Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif and Sahar Ammar 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359...
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We've just launched a new policy brief series, evaluating the Dayton Agreement at 30. A partnership between @inclusivepeaceora.bsky.social and the Forum of Federations, our first brief examines public opinions on constitutional reform options in BiH. Read it here: www.forumfed.org/collection/f...

This issue includes articles by our colleague, Dr Dawn Walsh @dawnwalsh.bsky.social , and our former PhD student, Dr Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social , including:

"Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy

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We're organising an @ipsa.org Research Committees Colloquium in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026, to be hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social. We welcome papers on all aspects of politics of and in ethnically plural societies. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

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📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR 27(3)

'Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems' by Allison McCulloch.

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Unstable Concepts, Unresolved Controversies: Reassembling Power-Sharing, Consociationalism, and Centripetalism After half a century of research, the literature on institutional design for ethnic conflict management is still in search of a scientific consensus. This article argues that underlying conceptual ...

In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

rc14.ipsa.org - Bolzano/Bozen 2026 Image credit: Eurac Research | Marion Lafogler

We're organising an @ipsa.org Research Committees Colloquium in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026, to be hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social. We welcome papers on all aspects of politics of and in ethnically plural societies. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

Hello Bluesky! We're @ipsa.org Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity. We're looking forward to sharing news from the RC and its members with you all here.