02230nab a22002897a 4500 46714 46714 046970 CL-SaANEPE 20211028235722.0 a||||| |||| 00| 0 110822t2011 xx ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d CL-SaANEPE CL-SaANEPE CL-SaANEPE US.WP/1/2011 Aktürk, Sener Regimes of ethnicity : comparative analysis of Germany, the Soviet Union/post Soviet Russia, and Turkey. Vol. 63, nro. 1 (january 2011), p. 115-164 How do state policies that regulate the relationship between ethnicity and nationality change? this article examines the dynamics of persistence and change in state policies toward ethnicity in orden to better comprehend the nature of political contestation over these state policies, the author first develops a new typology regimes of ethnicity, and categorizes states as having monoethnic, multiethnic, and antiethnic regimes. These regimes are defined along dimensions of membership and expression. Second, he develops a theory of ethnic regime change. He explains the persistence and change in policies related to ethnicity and nationality in Germany, the Soviet Union/post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey since the 1950s by reference to the presence or absence of three independent variables: counterelites, new discourses, and hegemonic majority. He argues that if counterelites representing constituencies with ethnically specific grievances como to power equipped with a new discourse on ethnicity and nationality and garner a hegemonic majority, they can change state policies on ethnicity. These three factors are separately necessary and jointly sufficient for change. Reform in the German citizenship law, removal of ethnicity from Russian internal passports, and the beginning of public broadcasting in Kurdish and other minority languages on state television in Turkey are examined as major changes in state policies ANALISIS COMPARADO ETNIAS RAZAS UNION SOVIETICA RUSIA FEDERACION RUSA TURQUIA World Politics. 020492 REVA ddc oss20110822