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Nation building: why some countries come together while others fall apart Princeton studies in global and comparative sociology./ Andreas Wimmer.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the slow-moving forces that encourage political alliances to stretch across ethnic divides and build national unity. Using datasets that cover the entire world and three pairs of case studies, Wimmer's theory of nation building focuses on slow-moving, generational processes: the spread of civil society organizations, linguistic assimilation, and the states' capacity to provide public goods. Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies together; and he shows that the differences between China and Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build political alliances across ethnic boundaries. Wimmer then reveals, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation building better than competing arguments such as democratic governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities are represented at the highest levels of government, the general populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further deepening national political integration. Offering a long-term historical perspective and global outlook, Nation Building sheds important new light on the challenges of political integration in diverse countries."--Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- A Note to the Reader on the Online Appendix -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Relational Theory and Nested Methods -- Voluntary Organizations: Switzerland versus Belgium -- Public Goods: Botswana versus Somalia -- Communicative Integration: China versus Russia -- Political Integration: Evidence from Countries around the World -- Identifying with the Nation: Evidence from a Global Survey -- Is Diversity Detrimental? -- Policy Implications with Some Lessons Learned from Afghanistan -- Appendix A: Supplement to Chapter 1 (Online) -- Appendix B: Supplement to Chapter 4 -- Appendix C: Supplement to Chapter 5 -- Appendix D: Supplement to Chapter 6 -- Appendix E: Supplement to Chapter 7 -- Appendix F: Supplement to Chapter 8 -- Notes -- References -- Index.1 online resource (375 pages)
Replication Data for: Power and Pride. National Identity and Ethnopolitical Inequality around the World
No full textWhy do some individuals embrace nationalist rhetoric and feel proud of their citizenship while others do not? This article introduces an exchange-theoretic perspective, according to which national pride depends on access to political power. Seen from this perspective, members of ethnic groups that are not represented in national-level government should be less proud of their nation than those included in the polity. Furthermore, ethnic violence in the past or power-sharing arrangements in the present should reduce trust in the future stability of political representation and thus pride in the nation. From a dynamic point of view, members of ethnic groups whose level of political representation decreased in the past should also see their nation in a less positive light today. To show this, the author uses existing surveys to assemble a new data set with answers to a similar question about national pride. It covers 123 countries that comprise 92 percent of the world’s population. For roughly half of these countries, the ethnic groups listed in the surveys could also be found in another data set that contains information on the political status of these groups. Multilevel ordered logistic regressions at both the country and the group level confirm these hypotheses while taking into account a wide range of individual-level and country-level variables discussed in the existing literature
Replication Data for: Power and Pride. National Identity and Ethnopolitical Inequality around the World
No full textWhy do some individuals embrace nationalist rhetoric and feel proud of their citizenship while others do not? This article introduces an exchange-theoretic perspective, according to which national pride depends on access to political power. Seen from this perspective, members of ethnic groups that are not represented in national-level government should be less proud of their nation than those included in the polity. Furthermore, ethnic violence in the past or power-sharing arrangements in the present should reduce trust in the future stability of political representation and thus pride in the nation. From a dynamic point of view, members of ethnic groups whose level of political representation decreased in the past should also see their nation in a less positive light today. To show this, the author uses existing surveys to assemble a new data set with answers to a similar question about national pride. It covers 123 countries that comprise 92 percent of the world’s population. For roughly half of these countries, the ethnic groups listed in the surveys could also be found in another data set that contains information on the political status of these groups. Multilevel ordered logistic regressions at both the country and the group level confirm these hypotheses while taking into account a wide range of individual-level and country-level variables discussed in the existing literature
Ethnic Boundary Making. Institutions, Power, Networks, Andreas Wimmer
Get PDFO livro Ethnic Boundary Making de Andreas Wimmer, possui a ambição das obras que marcam um campo científico e lhe definem as possibilidades futuras. Tamanho fôlego heurístico tem esta obra que já mereceu um simpósio na revista Ethnic and Racial Studies, com comentários, apreciações e críticas de alguns dos mais reconhecidos teóricos atuais que trabalham sobre identificações étnicas, tais como Rogers Brubacker, Richard Jenkins, Miri Song e Michèle Lamont. Esta obra, que organiza num quadro an..
Not Always in the People’s Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements
Get PDFPeace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring security from outside: they involve third-party mediators during the negotiation stage and often peacekeeping troops to guarantee the agreement at an implementation stage. Peace roundtables usually involve top politicians and military leaders, who negotiate, sign, and/or benefit from the agreement. What is usually and conspicuously absent from peace negotiations is broad-based participation by those who should benefit in the first place: citizens. More specifically, the local level of security provision and insecurity production is rarely taken into account. This paper reviews parts of the academic debate on power sharing and war termination, touching on some key findings by the main researchers working on the topic. The ambivalent African experience with Arend Lijphart’s four main ingredients of consociational democracy (grand coalition, minority veto, proportional representation, group autonomy) is summarized. Recent major African peace agreements (1999-2007) are analyzed, and their power-sharing content detailed. Most agreements contain some—though varying— power-sharing devices. Most striking is the variation regarding the important question of who is sharing power with whom. Obviously, only those present at the negotiation table can really count on being included in major ways. Finally, three country cases are analyzed over a longer time period: Côte d’Ivoire (2002-2007), Liberia (1994-2003), and Central African Republic (1996-2007). The conclusion focuses on the factors of failure of peace agreements that place a heavy emphasis on power sharing.Power sharing, peace agreements, consociational democracy, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia
Andreas Wimmer, Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Power, Networks
No full textInternational audienceL’ouvrage Ethnic Boundary Making d’Andreas Wimmer propose un cadre analytique pour comprendre pourquoi l’ethnicité structure différemment les sociétés selon les contextes.Plutôt que de considérer les groupes ethniques comme donnés, Wimmer analyse les processus de construction des frontières ethniques.Il montre que ces frontières varient selon les institutions, les positions sociales et les réseaux.L’ouvrage articule méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives pour saisir les dynamiques historiques et sociales de l’ethnicité.Il constitue un programme de recherche majeur pour dépasser à la fois l’essentialisme et le constructivisme radical
Waves of war : nationalism, state formation, and ethnic exclusion in the modern world /
No full text"Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? This book offers a new perspective on these issues. Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer shows that political power and legitimacy are central to our understanding of nation building, ethnic politics and the violent conflicts associated with both. He argues that shifting from dynastic or imperial legitimacy to rule in the name of a nationally defined people was both the consequence and the cause of wars between and within states. Once the 'like over like' principle was established, the ethno-political inequality that characterized nation-states with weak institutional capacity led to further ethnic conflict. Waves of War demonstrates why nationalism and ethnic politics are crucial for a proper understanding of world and domestic politics over the past 200 years"--"Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? This book offers a new perspective on these issues. Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer shows that political power and legitimacy are central to our understanding of nation building, ethnic politics and the violent conflicts associated with both. He argues that shifting from dynastic or imperial legitimacy to rule in the name of a nationally defined people was both the consequence and the cause of wars between and within states. Once the 'like over like' principle was established, the ethno-political inequality that characterized nation-states with weak institutional capacity led to further ethnic conflict. Waves of War demonstrates why nationalism and ethnic politics are crucial for a proper understanding of world and domestic politics over the past 200 years"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction and summary; 2. The birth of the nation; 3. The global rise of the nation-state; 4. Nation-state formation and war; 5. Ethnic politics and armed conflict; 6. Can peace be engineered?; 7. Conclusion; Appendices
Mit Bezug auf Sprache. Festschrift für Rainer Wimmer
Get PDFDie Beiträge in der Festschrift für Rainer Wimmer anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags dokumentieren die Vielschichtigkeit seines sprachwissenschaftlichen Wirkens. Eine große Anzahl der Artikel widmet sich einer seiner zentralen Forschungstätigkeiten, der Sprachkritik. Seine interdisziplinären und anwendungsorientierten Arbeitsfelder sowie seine frühen Arbeiten zu Eigennamen werden durch spezifische Beiträge ebenso gewürdigt, wie in einem Themenblock hervorgehoben wird, dass es »die« Sprache nicht gibt, sondern dass Sprachen nur neben Sprachen, d. h. in einem Miteinander, existieren können.
Auf diese Weise entsteht ein Einblick in die wichtigsten Strömungen und Ansätze der zeitgenössischen interpretativen Semantik, zu deren Entwicklung Rainer Wimmer durch sein Schaffen wesentlich beigetragen hat
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