More Than a Name? Variation in Electoral Mobilisation of Titular and Non-Titular Ethnic Minorities in Russian National Elections

Bibliographic Data

ID12892004
AuthorsAllison C White (0000-0001-8364-3164, Colorado State University, corresponding author), Inga Saikkonen (0000-0003-2303-0328, Yale Cancer Center)
Year2016
Volume16
Issue5
Pages450-470
Publication date2016-09-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449057.2016.1221186
OpenAlexW2524960740
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited38

Do patterns of electoral mobilisation differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Vladimir Putin’s Russia? Despite the fact that ‘titular privileging’ has been identified as one of the central causal mechanisms for patronage-based electoral mobilisation in Russia, existing literature has not tested this systematically. This study investigates whether turnout patterns differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Russia. We leverage unique raion-level electoral and demographic data in a series of multilevel models to analyse whether turnout patterns between these two groups vary in recent Russian legislative elections (2003 and 2011) and presidential contests (2004 and 2012). The empirical findings suggest that electoral turnout is consistently higher in raions with a higher share of titular minorities and that this effect is moderated in unexpected ways by contextual characteristics at the raion and regional levels

Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Legislature · Leverage (statistics · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion and Society Interactions

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