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Erdem, Ebru.

Political salience of ethnic identities: A comparative study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey.

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Title/Author:	Political salience of ethnic identities: A comparative study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey.
Author:	Erdem, Ebru.
Description:	203 p.
Notes:	Adviser: David D. Laitin.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3566.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3235214
ISBN:	9780542893872

Political salience of ethnic identities: A comparative study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey.
Erdem, Ebru.

Political salience of ethnic identities: A comparative study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey. - 203 p.

Adviser: David D. Laitin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2006.

Ethnographic and original survey data is used to show that Tajik identity is not politically salient in Uzbekistan and that people still seek patronage through local agents of the state. This is explained by the lack of a socioeconomic transformation, which left the Soviet period patronage structures intact. An in depth study of the Kurdish movement and statistical analysis of province level data is used to explain how Kurdish identity became politically salient in Turkey. Finally, the theory is generalized through a large-N test using the cross-national Minorities at Risk dataset.

ISBN: 9780542893872Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Political salience of ethnic identities: A comparative study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey.
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520 # $a In the case of Kurds in Turkey, the rapid socioeconomic change, accompanied by increasing education, immigration, industrialization, and democratization since the 1960s led to the weakening of the tribal networks and the emergence of Kurdish political entrepreneurs. Since the 1980s, Kurdish identity has been replacing tribal identities as the basis of political action among the Kurds and it has also become a major political cleavage in the country. In the counterfactual case of Tajiks in Uzbekistan, Soviet era patronage structures stay intact in the absence of socioeconomic change, and any potential new elites are co-opted into the existing patronage networks of the state. As a result ethnicity has not become politically salient even if it is socially salient.
520 # $a This dissertation argues that identity becomes politically salient because of local competition among existing and aspiring group elites for political patronage. Elite competition within the ethnic group is a result of a two stage process whereby the existing ethnic elite and the aspiring ethnic elite compete to be the patrons, and the people choose between the existing patrons. The new ethnic elites play the ethnic card to unify those members of the ethnic group whose ties to the existing patronage networks are weakened or severed. The ethnic card enables them to position themselves against the traditional patron-central state alliance and maximize the size of their constituency in the regional base. Thus, ethnicity becomes salient under conditions where new ethnic elites find it possible and profitable to compete politically and where a potential constituency prefers them over the existing elites.
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