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Ethnic Cues and Redistributive Preferences in Post-Soviet Georgia

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Erschienen in: Studies in Comparative International Development | Ausgabe 3/2017

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How do citizens in weak democracies evaluate claims on government assistance made by other ethnic groups? This paper analyzes data from an original survey experiment in the Republic of Georgia to determine the role of ethnic cues in the formation of redistributive preferences. In the experiment, ethnic Georgian subjects are randomly assigned a mock news article with variation on implied ethnic (Georgian, Azeri, or Armenian) identity and type of redistributive demand, and asked to evaluate the demand. The results show modest but consistent evidence of ethnic bias conditional on both types of variation, along with ethnic stereotypes, even while subjects are highly pro-redistribution in general. This study highlights how subtle biases can shape redistributive policy preferences in ways inimical to democracy in multiethnic societies.

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Georgia also has high religious diversity. Shia Islam predominates among Azeris, Armenians belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church, and the western Georgian region of Ajara has a sizeable population of Sunni ethnic Georgians.

Details on sampling can be found in the appendix.

Kitschelt and Wilkinson (2007: 11) argue that club goods can be allocated according to programmatic or clientelistic principles. A policy would be considered programmatic if it were structured to address general needs that happen to correspond with those of the intended beneficiaries (p. 12). Allocations to alleviate environmental and health problems could work according to either logic, and readers of the vignette may interpret the claim either way.

The vignettes were drafted through several revisions in consultation with Georgian and foreign experts. The differing details in the two vignettes were a product of ensuring that each vignette was internally coherent and possessed experimental realism (McDermott 2002: 333).

Correct identifications were made as follows for the three implied groups: Georgian 83.8 %, Armenian 68.0 %, Azeri 71.8 %.

All three variables are scored so that higher numbers indicate greater sympathy or support for the claim.

For the full sample, the differences in means are .08 and .12, respectively.

For thorough reviews, see Kitschelt and Wilkinson (2007) and Hicken (2011).

A multinomial model estimates the effect of a one-unit change in a predictor variable on the log-odds of moving from one level of the dependent variable to the next highest level. I use the proportional odds variant of the model because there are no theoretical reasons to suspect that changes in score should be non-constant. Thus, change in log odds is the same for the transition from any score on the dependent variable to the next highest score

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Titel: Ethnic Cues and Redistributive Preferences in Post-Soviet Georgia
verfasst von: Scott Radnitz
Publikationsdatum: 10.11.2015
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Studies in Comparative International Development / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0039-3606
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-6167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-015-9204-4

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