Factor of Ethnicity in Voting at Local Level in Russia

IF 2.9 1区 哲学 Q1 ETHICS
A. Semenov
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Ethnicity, being one of the most important forms of selfidentification, plays a significant role in many political processes, including the electoral process. Many research articles document a systematic relationship between ethnic identity and voting. At the same time, there is a dearth of studies about the concrete mechanisms on how ethnicity and voting are connected at the individual level. The question of their efficiency remains debatable. In the article, based on the materials of the focus group discussions in small towns in five ethnic republics of the Russian Federation, the author analyzes such mechanisms and tries to assess their possible effects in the Russian context. The research study shows that the factor of ethnicity is very weak in voting at the local level. Although ethnic identification helps reduce information uncertainty due to the presence of the common cultural markers, these markers are not the only or even the priority basis for electoral choices — the socio-economic agenda and personal qualities of candidates are equally or even more important. Such mechanisms as group pressure and political machines that are driven by ethnicity almost fail to predict electoral behavior. The research findings call into question a number of conclusions based on the crosssectional analysis of aggregated data, indicating that even if ethnicity plays a role in voting, this role is mediated by other factors.
俄罗斯地方选举中的民族因素
种族是自我认同的最重要形式之一,在包括选举进程在内的许多政治进程中起着重要作用。许多研究文章记录了种族认同和投票之间的系统关系。与此同时,关于种族和投票在个人层面上是如何联系在一起的具体机制的研究还很缺乏。它们的效率问题仍有争议。在本文中,作者根据在俄罗斯联邦五个少数民族共和国的小城镇进行的焦点小组讨论的材料,分析了这些机制,并试图评估它们在俄罗斯背景下可能产生的影响。研究表明,在地方选举中,种族因素的影响非常微弱。虽然种族认同有助于减少由于共同文化标记的存在而造成的信息不确定性,但这些标记并不是选举选择的唯一基础,甚至不是优先基础- -社会经济议程和候选人的个人素质同样重要,甚至更重要。由种族驱动的群体压力和政治机器等机制几乎无法预测选举行为。研究结果对基于汇总数据的横截面分析得出的一些结论提出了质疑,这些结论表明,即使种族在投票中起作用,这种作用也受到其他因素的影响。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Political Philosophy is an international journal devoted to the study of theoretical issues arising out of moral, legal and political life. It welcomes, and hopes to foster, work cutting across a variety of disciplinary concerns, among them philosophy, sociology, history, economics and political science. The journal encourages new approaches, including (but not limited to): feminism; environmentalism; critical theory, post-modernism and analytical Marxism; social and public choice theory; law and economics, critical legal studies and critical race studies; and game theoretic, socio-biological and anthropological approaches to politics. It also welcomes work in the history of political thought which builds to a larger philosophical point and work in the philosophy of the social sciences and applied ethics with broader political implications. Featuring a distinguished editorial board from major centres of thought from around the globe, the journal draws equally upon the work of non-philosophers and philosophers and provides a forum of debate between disparate factions who usually keep to their own separate journals.
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