Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context

The advance of liberal understanding of democracy with its interest in and constrained ability to interfere with citizens’ identities made cases of ethnocracy rare over the past decades. Over the past 25 years, Baltic politics and societies have experienced considerable change, however, as I demonst...

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Main Author: Timofey Agarin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2016-11-01
Series:Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/5144
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description The advance of liberal understanding of democracy with its interest in and constrained ability to interfere with citizens’ identities made cases of ethnocracy rare over the past decades. Over the past 25 years, Baltic politics and societies have experienced considerable change, however, as I demonstrate, considerable debate persists around the issues central to the argument about ethnocracy in the region. In the context, when discussing the central role played by state institutions in negotiating conflicts between groups over access to scarce resources of the state, it is central to see minorities as being in both the inferior numerical position as well as in symbolically more disadvantageous place: If we see democratic politics for what they are as majoritarian politics, and if we see these as taking place in the context of state institutions designed to uphold the ethnic majority dominance, then any kind of liberal democratic politics would be a good candidate for ethnocracy.
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spelling doaj.art-2a1bbe9bb17d4ea4bd875ee5fcfefc3f2022-12-21T22:11:11ZengUTS ePRESSCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal1837-53912016-11-018310.5130/ccs.v8i3.51443217Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic ContextTimofey Agarin0Queen's University BelfastThe advance of liberal understanding of democracy with its interest in and constrained ability to interfere with citizens’ identities made cases of ethnocracy rare over the past decades. Over the past 25 years, Baltic politics and societies have experienced considerable change, however, as I demonstrate, considerable debate persists around the issues central to the argument about ethnocracy in the region. In the context, when discussing the central role played by state institutions in negotiating conflicts between groups over access to scarce resources of the state, it is central to see minorities as being in both the inferior numerical position as well as in symbolically more disadvantageous place: If we see democratic politics for what they are as majoritarian politics, and if we see these as taking place in the context of state institutions designed to uphold the ethnic majority dominance, then any kind of liberal democratic politics would be a good candidate for ethnocracy.https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/5144EthnocracyBaltic StatesMinority accomodationMulticulturalism
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Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Ethnocracy
Baltic States
Minority accomodation
Multiculturalism
title Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
title_full Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
title_fullStr Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
title_full_unstemmed Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
title_short Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
title_sort extending the concept of ethnocracy exploring the debate in the baltic context
topic Ethnocracy
Baltic States
Minority accomodation
Multiculturalism
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