Beyond outbidding? : Ethnic party strategies in Serbia

Zuber, Christina Isabel

Beyond outbidding? : Ethnic party strategies in Serbia

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2013

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Journal article

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Published

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Party Politics ; 19 (2013), 5. - pp. 758-777. - ISSN 1354-0688. - eISSN 1460-3683

Abstract

The outbidding model of ethnic party competition predicts that ethnic parties adopt radical strategies to maximize support among voters of an ethnic group. In contrast, this article argues that ethnic parties have a wider range of strategies at their disposal. Integrating recent findings, ethnic party strategies are defined by the criteria of appeal and policy position as ‘static bidding‘, ‘ethnic underbidding‘, ‘ethnic outbidding‘, ‘lateral bidding‘, ‘lateral underbidding’ and ‘lateral outbidding‘. Empirically, a comparison of strategies adopted by ethnic parties competing for votes of the Hungarian and Bosniak minorities in Serbia shows variance of strategies within and across groups despite an environment conducive to outbidding and while holding institutional context factors constant. Factors causing this variance are explored through content analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews with ethnic party elites. An explanation that links strategies to parties' goals and the incentives of the structure of intra- and inter-ethnic competition is suggested for further research.

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320 Politics

Keywords

Elite respondents, ethnic parties party, change/adaptation

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ZUBER, Christina Isabel, 2013. Beyond outbidding? : Ethnic party strategies in Serbia. In: Party Politics. 19(5), pp. 758-777. ISSN 1354-0688. eISSN 1460-3683. Available under: doi: 10.1177/1354068811410368

BibTex

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  year={2013},
  doi={10.1177/1354068811410368},
  title={Beyond outbidding? : Ethnic party strategies in Serbia},
  number={5},
  volume={19},
  issn={1354-0688},
  journal={Party Politics},
  pages={758--777},
  author={Zuber, Christina Isabel}
}

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