Language, Ethnicity, and Separatism: Survey Results from Two Post-Soviet Regions
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چکیده
Abstract Scholars often use language to proxy ethnic identity in studies of conflict and separatism. This conflation ethnicity is misleading: can cut across divides itself has a strong link social mobility. Language therefore influence political preferences independently ethnicity. Results from an original survey two post-Soviet regions support these claims. Statistical analyses demonstrate that individuals fluent peripheral lingua franca are more likely separatism than those who not, while the central state less separatist outcomes. Moreover, linguistic fluency shows stronger relationship with for identification. These results provide evidence scholars should disaggregate their analyses: be salient ethnicity, most languages may not even ethnic.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Political Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0007-1234', '1469-2112']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123421000533