Endorsers, challengers or builders? Political parties’ diaspora outreach in a post-conflict state

Bibliographic Data

ID6298046
AuthorsMaria Koinova (0000-0001-9280-9736, University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume39
Issue3
Pages384-399
Publication date2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192512118761023
OpenAlexW2787173947
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited25

How do parties in government and opposition in a contested post-conflict state reach out to their diasporas abroad? Do their policies overlap or differ, and if so why? Scholarly accounts of sending states’ outreach towards diasporas have paid little attention to the variety of actors and processes within sending states, and have grouped states with contested sovereignty in the same cluster as states for which sovereignty is not a salient issue. This article focuses on one of these contested states, Kosovo, and on the party engagement with diasporas abroad that has emerged there. I conceptualize three types of extraterritorial party outreach – state-endorsing, state-challenging, and party-building. I argue that parties that emerge from secessionism and warfare are more likely to reach out to the diaspora through a state-endorsing or party-building approach, depending on whether they are in government or opposition. Parties that are newly institutionalized in the post-conflict polity seek to engage the diaspora through a state-endorsing or state-challenging approach

Diaspora · Opposition (politics · Outreach · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Salient · Sociology · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Turkey's Politics and Society

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