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According to this school of thought, identity is something you are born with or it emerges through a deep psychological process in early childhood.
What is Primordialism?
How does the ACLED index determine their findings?
They use political violence event data from the past 12 months.
How can states coerce collective action?
What is a common justification used by states for use of force?
to maintain law and order
'Identity is a malleable, evolving political process dependent on one’s political environment.'
what is constructivism?
What were the 2019 protests about, in Hong Kong?
Concerns about China 'buying' Hong Kong, corruption, identity (feeling split between HK and China), criminal extradictions to main land,
According the primordialism, how does identity become politicized?
Identity becomes politicized when large numbers of people mobilize to advance interests of, or defend percieved threats to their identity groups.
Why are revolutions relatively rare?
Revolutions require total victory by the insurgent forces, as well as popular support.
race: A categorization based on hereditable physical traits such as skin color, facial features, and hair texture.
ethnicity: defines people by a sharing of an understanding of a common heritage based on religions, language, territory, or family ties
According to Sasipornkarn (2024, week 8), have gender quotas in Asia work? Why or why not?
"Some countries in Asia have managed to increase the number of women legislators without gender quotas, "but it is not clearly associated with democratic development," said Choi."
While gender quotas might have led to more women in politics, Choi states that the profile of those who "have made their way to decision-making positions" also needs to be discussed.
Some comparative studies show that "the majority of women parliamentarians in Asia are middle-aged, educated and professional women" while "young and working-class women are largely absent," said Choi.
According to constructivism, in what ways does identity become politicized?
Identity can become politicized because someone or some group had an interest in that outcome.
What are two characteristics that civil war and revolutions share?
they are both armed conflicts, and they both happen within state boundaries.
In THIS gap, women are more conservative than men and vote for conservative parties, while in THIS gap, , women are more likely to vote for liberal parties and be more liberal than men.
Traditional gender gap, Modern gender gap
What does ACLED calculate, and what are the four indicators??
Calculates how conflicts in every country and territory in the world vary according to 4 indicators:
Deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic diffusion, and number of active armed groups.
When does primordialism suggest collective mobilization occurs?
What is: Collective mobilization occurs when groups perceive a threat to the continued practice of their collective identity.
- Collective identities can mobilize even when survival is not directly at states, because people feel affection for and loyal to those who they identify as.
These three conditions are necessary for a conflict to be considered 'genocide' (according to the textbook, pgs 269-270)
- ethnic divisions must exist,
- an ongoing civil war is occuring
- the international community is unwilling/unable to step in
In the realm of BLANK politics, this concept describes a system where the state actively organizes and mediates between SAME BLANK groups, contrasting with an unregulated mobilization of societal groups.
Bonus: what is this known as? (term)
Intrest Groups, Corporatism.
bonus: pluralism
What factors explain why Brazil and the U.S. think differently about race?
according to textbook - the key lies within the social context: the political interests of the late 19th- early 20th century Brazilian leaders wanted to consolidate political control over the country.
In 1888, slavery was abolished, and to hold power the political leaders really emphasized nationalism, in which black brazilians were politically equal with white brazilians.
Name three failures of primordialism
It ignores the possibility that individuals can and do choose, and sometimes change, their own identities.
When is genocide utilized by political actors?
it is utilized when political leaders need to rationalize horrendous violence on primordial grounds.