Preliminary communication

https://doi.org/10.20901/an.16.03

Descriptive representation and political participation: exploring Croatia's non-dominant groups electoral turnout

Timofey Agarin orcid.org/0000-0001-5880-3445 ; Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom
Petr Čermák orcid.org/0000-0003-0486-2858 ; Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Abstract

The series of ethnic conflicts in the Western Balkans over the 1990s in- volved primarily the constituent nations of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, and later, Albanians and Macedonians. Ethnic violence has equally affected other numerically smaller groups residing in the geo- graphic areas affected by conflict between the dominant, de facto state-founding ethnic groups. The paper investigates the continuous importance of ethnic identity for political participation of non-dominant groups affected by the ethno-political dynamics of dominant groups in post-conflict Croatia. Analyses of the political mobilisation of non-dominant groups in regions previously affected by conflict offer evidence that their ethno-political mobilisation reflects the continuous importance of identity-politics in the context of highly ethnicised institutions ensuring political representation at national and municipal levels.

Keywords

Political Participation; Non-Dominant Minorities; Local Elections; Postconflict Society; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

231501

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/231501

Publication date:

30.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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