RT Article
T1 I’d Like to Speak to the Person in Charge: Measuring Dominant Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 36
IS 1
SP 75
OP 89
A1 Petrich, Katharine
A2 Asal, Victor
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1877328111
AB Why do some organizations come to represent their communities while others remain footnotes of history? While ethnopolitics exist worldwide, there is no consensus about which organizations “rise to the top” to become the standard bearers for their communities and causes. In the developing world, the answer is often presumed to be the willingness to use violence, exercising territorial control, or securing support from external actors like foreign states. This article tests these assumptions using the Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB) dataset, and finds that contrary to much of the policy literature and popular news media, the factors which predict ethnopolitical organizational dominance are instead the provision of social services, incorporating a gender inclusive ideology, and maintaining clear and consolidated leadership in the form of a single individual. These findings have clear policy implications for both domestic and international engagement with ethnopolitical groups.
K1 Ethnicity
K1 Political Violence
K1 social service provision
K1 Gender
K1 North Africa
K1 Middle East
K1 Ethnopolitical conflict
DO 10.1080/09546553.2022.2106856