STRUCTURAL FACTORS FOR THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF ETHNICITY IN THE POLITICS OF THE ‘NATIONAL REPUBLICS’ OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Keywords:
national republics, ethnicity, institutionalization, governmental bodies, power-sharing, languageAbstract
The institutionalization of ethnicity, inherent in the politics of the Russian ‘national republics’, manifests itself in varying degrees and different forms. The article examines how the ethnic structure of the population influences the normative dimensions of the institutionalization of ethnicity. A comparative analysis has been performed based on indexation of such dimensions as institutionalization of ethnicity in the system of governmental bodies, in the distribution of power positions (power-sharing) and in the introduction of language preferences. The author juxtaposes the values of these indices and the ethnic structure of the population of the republics, and concludes that the ethnic structure of the population of the Russian ‘national republics’ influences the normative institutionalization of ethnicity; however, the relationship between them is not linear, but U-shaped, quadratic. The republics with an average share of the ‘titular group’ in the population demonstrate the highest degree of institutionalization of ethnicity. An overly high share of the ‘titular group’ reduces incentives to institutionalize ethnicity, while an overly low share reduces opportunities for the ‘titular group’ to satisfy its desire to institutionalize ethnicity. At the same time, different dimensions of the normative institutionalization of ethnicity follow this tendency unequally. It is most clearly manifested in such a field as the introduction of language preferences, and most weakly – in the system of the republican governmental bodies. DOI: 10.17072/2218-1067-2019-4-5-18References
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