Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Minority Ethnic Mobilization in Russia: An Introduction
- 2 Explaining Ethnic Mobilization: The Role of Ethnic Institutions
- 3 From Cultural Society to Popular Front: The Formation and Development of Nationalist Organizations
- 4 The Soviet Institutional Legacy and Ethno-Nationalist Ideology
- 5 Institutions Matter: Measuring Support for Nationalism
- 6 Intragroup Variation in Support for Nationalism: Not All Ethnics Are the Same
- 7 Outcomes: Did Regional Governments Adopt the Nationalist Agenda?
- 8 The Larger Picture: Support for Nationalism in Russia's Other Republics
- 9 Institutions and Nationalism
- Appendix: Construction of Variables and Indices
- References
- Index
8 - The Larger Picture: Support for Nationalism in Russia's Other Republics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Minority Ethnic Mobilization in Russia: An Introduction
- 2 Explaining Ethnic Mobilization: The Role of Ethnic Institutions
- 3 From Cultural Society to Popular Front: The Formation and Development of Nationalist Organizations
- 4 The Soviet Institutional Legacy and Ethno-Nationalist Ideology
- 5 Institutions Matter: Measuring Support for Nationalism
- 6 Intragroup Variation in Support for Nationalism: Not All Ethnics Are the Same
- 7 Outcomes: Did Regional Governments Adopt the Nationalist Agenda?
- 8 The Larger Picture: Support for Nationalism in Russia's Other Republics
- 9 Institutions and Nationalism
- Appendix: Construction of Variables and Indices
- References
- Index
Summary
To this point, I have developed the institutionalist explanation of ethnic mobilization on the basis of four ethnic regions of the Russian Federation: Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Khakassia, and Tatarstan. In this chapter, I seek to test the validity of the theory by applying it to another fifteen ethnic groups in fourteen republics of the Russian Federation. The findings of this chapter further strengthen the ethnic institutions argument by showing that it applies not just to the selected republics, but to all of the major ethnic regions of the Russian Federation.
The rest of the chapter proceeds as follows: First, I discuss the measures of support for nationalism and examine the extent of support for nationalism in the selected cases. Then I use statistical analysis to determine which social groups are more likely to support nationalist ideas. Finally, I discuss the extent to which these data confirm the theory developed in the earlier chapters.
DATA AND EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
This chapter relies exclusively on the Colton/Hough survey described in Chapter 5. In addition to being conducted in Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, and Tatarstan, this survey was carried out in all of the former autonomous republics of the Russian Federation. We thus have an additional fifteen cases in fourteen republics. Unfortunately, the Laitin/Hough survey used to supplement my results in Chapter 6 was not conducted in any of Russia's ethnic republics other than Bashkortostan and Tatarstan.
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- Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation , pp. 234 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003