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Roeth, Leonce and Kaiser, Andre (2019). Why accommodate minorities asymmetrically? A theory of ideological authority insulation. Eur. J. Polit. Res., 58 (2). S. 557 - 582. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1475-6765

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Abstract

Tensions between regionalist claimants and state-wide governments remain the primary source of violent conflicts. Existing theories cannot systematically explain why and when state-wide governments accede to such claims. Building on the partisan approaches developed so far, a theory of ideological authority insulation is constructed in this article. It is argued that the willingness of state-wide parties to transfer authority to specific territorial entities is predominantly informed by ideological proximity to those entities. In a nutshell, the dominant conflict dimension in a country superimposes partisan rationales on the territorial dimension. A new dataset has been compiled with roughly 4,300 region-cabinet dyads between 1945 and 2015, including electoral data, party positions and regional 'centres of gravity'. Using panel rare-events regressions, it is found that ideological proximity systematically explains the accommodation of minority demand controlling for alternative explanations from the partisan and ethnic conflict literature. The empirical evidence therefore supports adding ideological insulation and superimposition to the toolbox of partisan and conflict researchers. Additionally, the findings encourage the application of arguments from the conflict literature in established democracies and the testing of insights from partisan researchers in less democratic environments.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Roeth, Leonce UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kaiser, Andre UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-149350
DOI:	10.1111/1475-6765.12301
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. J. Polit. Res.
Volume:	58
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 557 - 582
Date:	2019
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1475-6765
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language STATE-WIDE PARTIES; POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION; FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION; COMPETITION; CONFLICT; REGIONALIST; FRAMEWORK; SYSTEMS Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14935