Open AccessORGANIZED ETHNICITY: TYPOLOGY OF ETHNIC ORGANIZATIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD
Author(s) -
M. V. Isobchuk,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vestnik permskogo universiteta. politologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2218-1067
DOI - 10.17072/2218-1067-2021-3-88-96
Subject(s) - ethnic group , typology , ethnic history , context (archaeology) , political science , ethnic conflict , public relations , sociology , geography , anthropology , law , archaeology
Ethnic organizations are definitely the main actors in ethnopolitical processes in the modern world. It is they who act as the main agents of mobilization on ethnic grounds and as a result as the direct initiators and par-ticipants of ethnopolitical conflicts too. Of course, in this context, it becomes necessary to structure the eth-nic organizations' typology. However, the typologies existing at the moment reflect only the formal aspects of the status of ethnic organizations (parties, NGOs, etc.), ignoring the organizational aspects of their func-tioning. In the article, based on the author's database of ethnic organizations in Eastern Europe, a new typol-ogy of ethnic organizations is proposed. Based on empirical data on organizational characteristics of 203 ethnic organizations in Eastern Europe (strategies, representative ability, availability of resources, etc.), and using hierarchical clustering, three functional types of ethnic organizations are identified, depending on their manifestation in ethnopolitical conflict. Moreover, the study identifies an aggregate parameter of the signifi-cance of the organizational characteristics of the ethnic organizations in an ethnopolitical conflict. It is also found that the organizational characteristics of ethnic organizations may describe up to a quarter of the varia-tion in ethnic conflict.