Alternatives in Mobilization
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Alternatives in Mobilization

Ethnicity, Religion, and Political Conflict

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Alternatives in Mobilization

Ethnicity, Religion, and Political Conflict

About this book

What determines which identity cleavage, ethnicity or religion, is mobilized in political contestation, be it peaceful or violent? In contrast to common predictions that the greatest contention occurs where identities are fully segmented, most identity conflicts in the world are between ethnic groups that share religion. Alternatives in Mobilization builds on the literature about political demography to address this seeming contradiction. The book proposes that variation in relative group size and intersection of cleavages help explain conundrums in the mobilization of identity, across transgressive and contained political settings. This theory is tested cross-nationally on identity mobilization in civil war and across violent conflict in Pakistan, Uganda, Nepal and Turkey, and peaceful electoral politics in Indonesia. This book helps illustrate a more accurate and improved picture of the ethnic and religious tapestry of the world and addresses an increasing need for a better understanding of how religion contributes to conflict.

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Yes, you can access Alternatives in Mobilization by Jóhanna Kristín Birnir,Nil Seda Şatana in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright infromation
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Demography of Identity in Political Conflict
  12. 3 The Theory: Alternatives in Mobilization
  13. 4 Testing the Challenger's Winning Coalition Hypothesis on Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War
  14. 5 The Internal Validity of the Challenger's Winning CoalitionHypothesis
  15. 6 The Challenger's Winning Coalition in Indonesia's Electoral Politics
  16. 7 Conclusion
  17. Appendix A AMAR Groups and the A-Religion Data Set
  18. Appendix B Formal Representation of the Theory of Alternativesin Mobilization
  19. Appendix C Transformation of RELAC Data to Group Level to Match with the A-Religion Data Set
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index