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The Dynamics of Ethnonationalist Contention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2010

Abstract

Ethnopolitical expression spans three primary forms: electoral politics, non-violent protest and violent rebellion. Previous literature has studied these strategies in isolation from one another. Using original data on the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain, this article combines a new method for operationalizing contentious strategies with Gurr’s ethnopolitical conflict model to explain communities’ movements between categories of the full range of nationalist political behaviour. The findings confirm that organizations acting within a community respond to altered incentives and changing political contexts by moving up and down the ‘ladder of contention’; they suggest an under-explored ‘strategic dynamism’ in ethnonational communities. Capturing this dynamic movement allows for a better understanding of which features of a group’s environment have an ‘escalatory’ impact on conflict and which, conversely, have an ‘ameliorative’ effect.

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21 These elections were held in 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1995 in all regions except Galicia, Andalusia, Catalonia and the Basque Country, which individually set the timing for their own elections. To increase the accuracy of the early scores, vote data from the national elections of 1977 and 1979 were also used. For years in between elections, scores were interpolated (sourced from Anuario El País (Madrid: Promotora de Informaciones, S.A., 1982–96)).

22 Depending on the region, the legal electoral threshold for representation is 3 per cent or 5 per cent, applied at either the regional or district level. However, given Spain’s D’Hondt-formula proportional representation system and the variation in district-level and regional-level legal thresholds as well as district magnitudes, the ‘effective threshold’ for representation at the regional level, or the average share of the votes that is required in practice to guarantee a seat in a regional parliament (typically measured as the mean of the thresholds of representation and exclusion), ranges from a low of 3.5 per cent in Catalonia to a high of 8 per cent in Murcia over the course of our study (see Lago Peñas, Ignacio, ‘Cleavages and Thresholds: The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws in the Spanish Autonomous Communities, 1980–2000’, Electoral Studies, 23 (2004), 2343)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Here we have chosen to use a standardized 5 per cent threshold, which corresponds to the strictest legal threshold in Spain (Valencia) as well as the mean (5.26 per cent) and median (5 per cent) ‘effective’ regional-level thresholds (Lago Peñas, ‘Cleavages and Thresholds’).

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62 Traditional logit coefficients are presented in the first columns with the more easily interpretable odds ratios in the third column. For categorical variables, we present the factor change in the odds for a unit increase in the independent variable, and for interval/ratio-level variables we present the change in the odds for a standard deviation increase in the independent variable. The odds can be transformed into a percentage change in the odds by subtracting one and then multiplying by 100. For example, a one-standard deviation increase in relative population increases the odds of protest over no contention by 375 per cent.

63 Given the relatively low N for our analyses, we suggest that a p of ≤ 0.1 still points to an interesting and important relationship.

64 We recognize that the Political Autonomy Grievances variable, which includes support for independence could suppress the effect of other determinants of contention. While such a variable cannot be excluded from a model of contention, it is nevertheless important to consider its potential impact on other independent variables. We therefore estimated our model without the Political Autonomy Grievances variable to help gauge the degree of any possible impact. We found no suppression effects (and generally no effect) on the Rate of Repression, Castile, GDP per capita, Central Transfers, Relative Population, Democracy and Nationalist Representation variables. However, Political Autonomy Grievances does appear to suppress the impact of Democratic Durability on contention. In addition, the effect of Identity, the National Rate of Repression, Unemploymentand Contagion are all shown to have a significant impact on the path from electoral contention to rebellion when Political Autonomy Grievances is excluded from the model.

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66 That is, all continuous independent variables are set at their means and Castile is set at 0. Categorical variables are set at their approximate means, with Democracy, Democratic Durability and Democratization set at 10, 8 and 0, respectively.

67 The democracy levels range from a semi-democratic Polity IV score of 5 (Spain’s score in 1977) through a fully democratic score of 10 (Spain from 1982–96). The Identity variable, which is set at 11 for these results, reflects the percentage of each region’s population that believes their region to be a distinct ‘nation’ rather than a mere ‘region’ of Spain (Identity ranges from 1 to 37.33, with a mean of 9.9 and median of 6.66).

68 The maximum value for the rate of repression variable is 16 in the case of Navarre in 1988.

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