Rasma Karklins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 165030 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rasma Karklins |
| PRENOMES | Rasma |
| SOBRENOME | Karklins |
| ASSINATURA | KARKLINS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 200 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Ethnic Relations in the USSR
Integration in Latvia
Since Latvia restored her independence 30 years ago, numerous studies of Latvia’s inter-ethnic relations have been published, each with specific analytical and periodic frames. This article covers demographic data and naturalization issues, language and educational policies, political representation, the attitudes and perceptions of population subgroups, and last, but not least, the influence of Russia. The latter has become especially important …
The System Made Me Do it
Strike up a conversation with a citizen from the post-communist region and invariably the talk will turn to the topic of corruption - the misuse of public power for private gain. People are sure that corruption is widespread, whether from their own experiences or stories they have heard from others. They feel frustrated that there seems to be nothing they can do about it, that they are helpless, and that they are being played for fools. And many …
In Eastern Europe, Corruption in the Crosshairs
If those responsible for grand corruption are called to account, this can significantly raise the credibility of anticorruption campaigns and galvanize public support for efforts to contain the pettier forms of corruption
Typology of Post-Communist Corruption
Corruption takes many forms, and all of them distort the workings of the political system
The Misunderstanding of Ethnicity
Ethnicity is often demonized as a dangerous and destructive force. If constructive ethnopolitical alternatives are ignored, the misunderstanding of ethnic interests can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Political participation in Latvia 1987–2001
Political participation is crucial to democracy; we discuss its main features during three stages. The years 1988–91 are marked by anti-regime mobilization and extensive mass activism in support for restoring independence. After a “normalizing” phase between 1992–98 we note contradictory trends in more recent years. Next to conventional political participation one notes increasing protests, referendum initiatives, and corrupt ways of gaining infl…
Ethnopluralism
Worldwide, ethnopolitics takes on various shapes. Yet, while politics involving ethnicity can be either conflictual, competitive, or cooperative, analysts typically focus either on instances of conflict or ignore the multiethnicity of states by sticking to “the comfortable integrationist presumptions of the 1950s.” All too rarely does one find analyses of policies that work in difficult situations. This global trend is intensified in the case of …
Ethnic Integration and School Policies in Latvia
Latvia's education system shows little movement toward ethnic integration in the sense of homogenization, yet there is integration in the sense of a widely accepted status quo. Linguistically separated schools act as safeguards of cultural identity for Latvians and non-Latvians alike and may well be the linchpin guaranteeing ethnic peace. As argued by pluralist thinkers, comprehensive ethnic mixing and homogenizing of multiethnic populations can …
Activities and Appointments
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Religious-Centered Multiethnic Societies
Ethnopolitics and the Transition to Democracy
Award Recipients
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Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union
(1994). Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 29-45
Apsa Awards and Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Decision Calculus of Protesters and Regimes
In our analysis of mass protest in the nonreformist part of Eastern Europe 1989 we ask not only why people rebel, but how they rebel against highly repressive regimes. We show how the decisions of individual protesters concerning participation in protest activity are influenced by a set of assurance games that involve their own and other social groups. We also show how regime actors go through the reverse process of a "deassurance game" as their …
Perestroika and Ethnopolitics in the USSR
There are times when the issues we analyze as scholars suddenly become front-page news. This has happened to me with the increase of ethnic protests in the Soviet Union. Balts, Armenians, and others, are in the news daily and commentators are debating what their demands mean for the future of the Gorbachev program. What indeed? I shall venture an analysis, but with a disclaimer that much is uncertain due to the fluidity of events and the continui…
The organisation of power in Soviet labour camps
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary …
The analysis of national cadre politics
Almost every discussion of nationality policy in the USSR touches on cadre development by comparing the role of non-Russians to that of Russians in various political, economic, scientific, or other positions, yet such analysis involves numerous unresolved conceptual and methodological problems. Different authors emphasize different aspects and approaches, consequently they often reach different conclusions. What are these problems and what are po…
Determinants of ethnic identification in the USSR
Soviet Elections Revisited
This analysis of voters and nonvoters in a large sample of recent emigrants from the Soviet Union shows that nonvoting is correlated with high interest in politics, a critical political outlook, and dissident modes of behavior. Thus, voter abstention in noncompetitive balloting can be hypothesized to constitute a significant political act rather than passivity. Single-party states use single-candidate elections for a variety of purposes, one of t…
Ethnic Politics and Access to Higher Education
Ethnic interaction in the Baltic republics
A note on ‘nationality’ and ‘native tongue’ as census categories in 1979
The author examines how data on ethnic groups in the 1979 Soviet census should be treated. In particular the meaning of such categories as nationality and native tongue is illustrated using material obtained from recent emigrants from the USSR mainly Soviet Germans emigrating to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1979. The implications for the interpretation of Soviet census results are considered (ANNOTATION)
Soviet Elections Revisited
This analysis of voters and nonvoters in a large sample of recent emigrants from the Soviet Union shows that nonvoting is correlated with high interest in politics, a critical political outlook, and dissident modes of behavior. Thus, voter abstention in noncompetitive balloting can be hypothesized to constitute a significant political act rather than passivity. Single-party states use single-candidate elections for a variety of purposes, one of t…
Decision Calculus of Protesters and Regimes
In our analysis of mass protest in the nonreformist part of Eastern Europe 1989 we ask not only why people rebel, but how they rebel against highly repressive regimes. We show how the decisions of individual protesters concerning participation in protest activity are influenced by a set of assurance games that involve their own and other social groups. We also show how regime actors go through the reverse process of a "deassurance game" as their …
Typology of Post-Communist Corruption
Corruption takes many forms, and all of them distort the workings of the political system
Ethnic Relations in the USSR
Ethnic Politics and Access to Higher Education
A note on ‘nationality’ and ‘native tongue’ as census categories in 1979
The author examines how data on ethnic groups in the 1979 Soviet census should be treated. In particular the meaning of such categories as nationality and native tongue is illustrated using material obtained from recent emigrants from the USSR mainly Soviet Germans emigrating to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1979. The implications for the interpretation of Soviet census results are considered (ANNOTATION)
Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union
(1994). Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 29-45
Political participation in Latvia 1987–2001
Political participation is crucial to democracy; we discuss its main features during three stages. The years 1988–91 are marked by anti-regime mobilization and extensive mass activism in support for restoring independence. After a “normalizing” phase between 1992–98 we note contradictory trends in more recent years. Next to conventional political participation one notes increasing protests, referendum initiatives, and corrupt ways of gaining infl…
Ethnic Integration and School Policies in Latvia
Latvia's education system shows little movement toward ethnic integration in the sense of homogenization, yet there is integration in the sense of a widely accepted status quo. Linguistically separated schools act as safeguards of cultural identity for Latvians and non-Latvians alike and may well be the linchpin guaranteeing ethnic peace. As argued by pluralist thinkers, comprehensive ethnic mixing and homogenizing of multiethnic populations can …
Determinants of ethnic identification in the USSR
The organisation of power in Soviet labour camps
Ethnopluralism
Worldwide, ethnopolitics takes on various shapes. Yet, while politics involving ethnicity can be either conflictual, competitive, or cooperative, analysts typically focus either on instances of conflict or ignore the multiethnicity of states by sticking to “the comfortable integrationist presumptions of the 1950s.” All too rarely does one find analyses of policies that work in difficult situations. This global trend is intensified in the case of …
Religious-Centered Multiethnic Societies
Integration in Latvia
Since Latvia restored her independence 30 years ago, numerous studies of Latvia’s inter-ethnic relations have been published, each with specific analytical and periodic frames. This article covers demographic data and naturalization issues, language and educational policies, political representation, the attitudes and perceptions of population subgroups, and last, but not least, the influence of Russia. The latter has become especially important …
The Misunderstanding of Ethnicity
Ethnicity is often demonized as a dangerous and destructive force. If constructive ethnopolitical alternatives are ignored, the misunderstanding of ethnic interests can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
The analysis of national cadre politics
Almost every discussion of nationality policy in the USSR touches on cadre development by comparing the role of non-Russians to that of Russians in various political, economic, scientific, or other positions, yet such analysis involves numerous unresolved conceptual and methodological problems. Different authors emphasize different aspects and approaches, consequently they often reach different conclusions. What are these problems and what are po…
A note on ‘nationality’ and ‘native tongue’ as census categories in 1979
The author examines how data on ethnic groups in the 1979 Soviet census should be treated. In particular the meaning of such categories as nationality and native tongue is illustrated using material obtained from recent emigrants from the USSR mainly Soviet Germans emigrating to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1979. The implications for the interpretation of Soviet census results are considered (ANNOTATION)
Ethnic interaction in the Baltic republics
Ethnic Politics and Access to Higher Education
Soviet Elections Revisited
This analysis of voters and nonvoters in a large sample of recent emigrants from the Soviet Union shows that nonvoting is correlated with high interest in politics, a critical political outlook, and dissident modes of behavior. Thus, voter abstention in noncompetitive balloting can be hypothesized to constitute a significant political act rather than passivity. Single-party states use single-candidate elections for a variety of purposes, one of t…
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary …
The analysis of national cadre politics
Almost every discussion of nationality policy in the USSR touches on cadre development by comparing the role of non-Russians to that of Russians in various political, economic, scientific, or other positions, yet such analysis involves numerous unresolved conceptual and methodological problems. Different authors emphasize different aspects and approaches, consequently they often reach different conclusions. What are these problems and what are po…
Determinants of ethnic identification in the USSR
Perestroika and Ethnopolitics in the USSR
There are times when the issues we analyze as scholars suddenly become front-page news. This has happened to me with the increase of ethnic protests in the Soviet Union. Balts, Armenians, and others, are in the news daily and commentators are debating what their demands mean for the future of the Gorbachev program. What indeed? I shall venture an analysis, but with a disclaimer that much is uncertain due to the fluidity of events and the continui…
The organisation of power in Soviet labour camps
Apsa Awards and Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Decision Calculus of Protesters and Regimes
In our analysis of mass protest in the nonreformist part of Eastern Europe 1989 we ask not only why people rebel, but how they rebel against highly repressive regimes. We show how the decisions of individual protesters concerning participation in protest activity are influenced by a set of assurance games that involve their own and other social groups. We also show how regime actors go through the reverse process of a "deassurance game" as their …
Ethnopolitics and the Transition to Democracy
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union
(1994). Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 29-45
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Religious-Centered Multiethnic Societies
Ethnic Integration and School Policies in Latvia
Latvia's education system shows little movement toward ethnic integration in the sense of homogenization, yet there is integration in the sense of a widely accepted status quo. Linguistically separated schools act as safeguards of cultural identity for Latvians and non-Latvians alike and may well be the linchpin guaranteeing ethnic peace. As argued by pluralist thinkers, comprehensive ethnic mixing and homogenizing of multiethnic populations can …
Ethnopluralism
Worldwide, ethnopolitics takes on various shapes. Yet, while politics involving ethnicity can be either conflictual, competitive, or cooperative, analysts typically focus either on instances of conflict or ignore the multiethnicity of states by sticking to “the comfortable integrationist presumptions of the 1950s.” All too rarely does one find analyses of policies that work in difficult situations. This global trend is intensified in the case of …
The Misunderstanding of Ethnicity
Ethnicity is often demonized as a dangerous and destructive force. If constructive ethnopolitical alternatives are ignored, the misunderstanding of ethnic interests can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Political participation in Latvia 1987–2001
Political participation is crucial to democracy; we discuss its main features during three stages. The years 1988–91 are marked by anti-regime mobilization and extensive mass activism in support for restoring independence. After a “normalizing” phase between 1992–98 we note contradictory trends in more recent years. Next to conventional political participation one notes increasing protests, referendum initiatives, and corrupt ways of gaining infl…
Typology of Post-Communist Corruption
Corruption takes many forms, and all of them distort the workings of the political system
In Eastern Europe, Corruption in the Crosshairs
If those responsible for grand corruption are called to account, this can significantly raise the credibility of anticorruption campaigns and galvanize public support for efforts to contain the pettier forms of corruption
The System Made Me Do it
Strike up a conversation with a citizen from the post-communist region and invariably the talk will turn to the topic of corruption - the misuse of public power for private gain. People are sure that corruption is widespread, whether from their own experiences or stories they have heard from others. They feel frustrated that there seems to be nothing they can do about it, that they are helpless, and that they are being played for fools. And many …
Integration in Latvia
Since Latvia restored her independence 30 years ago, numerous studies of Latvia’s inter-ethnic relations have been published, each with specific analytical and periodic frames. This article covers demographic data and naturalization issues, language and educational policies, political representation, the attitudes and perceptions of population subgroups, and last, but not least, the influence of Russia. The latter has become especially important …
Ethnic Relations in the USSR
Political science (20 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Political economy (9 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Ethnic group (7 obras) · Soviet and Russian History (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras)