Journal article
The move towards disintegration: Explaining ethnosecessionist mobilization in South Asia
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol.3(2), pp.101-130
1997
Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze ethnosecessionist mobilization ‐ that is, political mobilization in support of national independence by breaking away from the existing state. The author tests the applicability of theories of ethnic political mobilization in explaining ethnosecessionist tendencies in South Asia in the 1980s. The causal variables that have a bearing on ethnic political mobilization are identified; using binary coding, each causal variable is linked with the outcome variable for each case selected for study in order to reveal the various causal combinations of the phenomenon; and using Boolean methodology, the various causal combinations are reduced to determine the minimum causal conjunctures of ethnosecessionism in South Asia, which can be related to the key causal requirements of the different theories of ethnic political mobilization to determine which theories are more applicable in explaining ethnosecessionist tendencies.
Details
- Title
- The move towards disintegration: Explaining ethnosecessionist mobilization in South Asia
- Authors/Creators
- R. Ganguly (Author/Creator) - University of Southern Mississippi
- Publication Details
- Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol.3(2), pp.101-130
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 991005545060807891
- Copyright
- The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Management and Governance
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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