Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index

Nations and Nationalism

Ethnic Groups in Conflict

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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class

1. From the impossible to the inevitable 2. The tide and the mobilizational cycle 3. Structuring nationalism 4. 'Thickened' history and the mobilization of identity 5. Tides and the failure of nationalist mobilization 6. Violence and tides of nationalism 7. The transcendence of regimes of repression 8. Russian mobilization and the accumulating 'inevitability' of Soviet collapse 9. Conclusion: nationhood and event.

Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State: STRUCTURING NATIONALISM

Research on regime change has often wound up chasing events in the post-Soviet world because it has frequently assumed that regime change, if not simple instability, implies a trajectory toward a regime-type endpoint like democracy or autocracy. A supplemental approach recognizes that regime change can be cyclic, not just progressive, regressive, or random. In fact, regime cycles are much of what we see in the postcommunist world, where some states have oscillated from autocracy toward greater democracy, then back toward more autocracy, and, with recent “colored revolutions,” toward greater democracy again. An institutional logic of elite collective action, focusing on the effects of patronalpresidentialism, is shown to be useful in understanding such cyclic dynamics, explaining why “revolutions” occurred between 2003 and 2005 in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan but not in countries like Russia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan.

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Regime Cycles: Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Federal states in which component regions are invested with distinct ethnic content are more likely to collapse when they contain a core ethnic region, a single ethnic region enjoying pronounced superiority in population. Dividing a dominant group into multiple federal regions reduces these dangers. A study of world cases finds that all ethnofederal states that have collapsed have possessed core ethnic regions. Thus, ethnofederalism, so long as it is instituted without a core ethnic region, may represent a viable way of avoiding the most deadly forms of conflict while maintaining state unity in ethnically divided countries.

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Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse

1. Electoral markets and Russia's political smorgasboard 2. Party entrepreneurship in Russia's electoral market, 1989-2004 3. How much party is in the party system? 4. Electoral markets and party substitutes in Russia: origins and impact 5. Parties and party substitutes: determining the balance 6. Conclusion: the market model and theories of parties, national integration, and transitions from authoritarian rule.

Why Not Parties in Russia?: Democracy, Federalism, and the State

A political scientist and specialist on Russian electoral and ethnic politics provides an explanation of machine politics in Russia's regions that accounts for the great variation in the power of these machines. The focus is on distinguishing among the economic and ethnic legacies of the Soviet period, the effects of the transition itself, and the impact of provincial leadership. As evidence, the author presents a historicalinterpretive examination of Russia's transition at the level of provincial politics as well as a statistical analysis of factors impacting the strength of regional machine candidates in the 1999 single-member-district Duma elections.

Explaining Machine Politics in Russia's Regions: Economy, Ethnicity, and Legacy

1. Introduction 2. Patronal politics and the great power of expectations 3. A patronal-politics reinterpretation of Eurasian history 4. Constitutions, elections, and regime dynamics 5. The emergence of networks and constitutions 6. The building of Eurasia's great power pyramids 7. Revolutions and other presidential ousters 8. Non-revolution in post-Soviet presidential systems 9. After revolution 10. Patronal parliamentarism 11. Explaining post-Soviet regime dynamics 12. Patronal politics in global comparative perspective.

Henry E. Hale

Papers

Regime Cycles: Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse

Why Not Parties in Russia?: Democracy, Federalism, and the State

Explaining Machine Politics in Russia's Regions: Economy, Ethnicity, and Legacy

Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective