Ethnic diversity and polarization in Vojvodina

Fertility and Ethnic Diversity

This paper relates national fertility rates to political factors. I first review evidence that community norms affect fertility, ethnic groups compete politically in many countries, and a group’s relative size affects its ability to compete. This evidence jointly suggests that population growth and fertility may be public goods at the ethnic group level in diverse societies. Next, I present a s...

phylogeography and genetic diversity of the lesser mouse- eared bat (myotis blythii) in iran

in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative e.ects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on communities of di.erent size and organizational structure, such as countries, cities in developed countries, villages and groups in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open i...

Ethnic Diversity and Democratic Stability

“Urban Opportunity Structure and Racial/Ethnic Polarization”

In his seminal, if controversial, work published in 1978, The Declining Significance of Race, William Julius Wilson argued that individuals’ minority status per se was becoming a relatively less important barrier to their socioeconomic advancement than their lower-income status (Wilson 1978). In this chapter I offer a different conceptual perspective on the issue of race, class and opportunity....