What is the intermediate factor between decentralization and its effect on ethnic conflict and secessionism?
the growth of regional parties
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What example does Brancati give to demonstrate how regional parties bolster secessionism?
The Northern League in Italy (Padania)
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What is the overall effect of federalism on suppressing conflict?
positive but undermined by growth of regional parties
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Who says that what determines whether a state is created as federal or unitary is whether the constituent states of a potential federation have high levels of what Michael Mann calls 'infrastructural capacity'?
Ziblatt
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Who says that ethnofederal states are more likely to collapse when they contain a core ethnic region?
Hale
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All ethnofederations that have collapsed have possessed core ethnic regions, whereas no ethnofederation lacking a core ethnic region has collapsed. True or false?
True
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What is the definition of a core ethnofederal region?
contains either an outright majority of the population or makes up 20% more of the population than the second largest region
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To who does the theory of Imagined Communities belong?
Anderson
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Since 1945, ethnic conflict has played a major role in x% of all wars, turned over y million people into refugees and caused z million deaths.
50, 12, 11
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Why does Bermeo argue that institutions are important in the success of peace preservation in federal systems?
they provide more layers of government and thus more settings for peaceful bargaining
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Who estimates that they assimilation of ethnic groups requires between 300 and 700 years?
Deutsch
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Who says ' Federalization is not a pancea and federalism is no guarantee or peace - or anything else'?
Bermeo
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Who finds that the race to the bottom in federal systems is not found in undercutting other states but rather in a failure to adjust for inflation unless other states do the same?
Volden
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Who finds that federal regimes generally do better than unitary regimes in accommodating ethnic armed rebellion, minority discrimination and grievances?
Bermeo
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Who says that 'in the absence of federalism, geographically concentrated minorities seem less prone to either want to leave the state or... to succeed in doing so'?
Bunce
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Who notes that most separatist violence emerges as a result of central refusal to respond to initially moderate demands from minorities?
Sambanis
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Who said 'federal systems that have persisted do so not because they have eliminated conflict but because they have managed it'?
Watt
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Who says that federalism is more like a marble cake than a layer cake?
Grozdins
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Who notes that violence is more likely in India when Muslim minorities were not electorally valuable for Hindu majorities?
Wilkinson
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Who says that collective disadvantages and relative deprivation are at the heart of political mobilisation?
Gurr
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Who says that 'federalism is chiefly a property of constitutions not societies'?
Brooks
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Wibbels finds that federal economies in developing systems fair worse than their unitary counterparts, increasing the budget deficits by what percent of expenditure?
2.8
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What example does Brancati give to demonstrate how regional parties bolster secessionism?
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The Northern League in Italy (Padania)
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What is the overall effect of federalism on suppressing conflict?
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Card 4
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Who says that what determines whether a state is created as federal or unitary is whether the constituent states of a potential federation have high levels of what Michael Mann calls 'infrastructural capacity'?
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Who says that ethnofederal states are more likely to collapse when they contain a core ethnic region?
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