Rosemary C. R. Taylor

Bio: Rosemary C. R. Taylor is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Celtic languages & Internal colonialism. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 532 citations.

The Ethnic Origins of Nations

Abstract: Preface. Note to Maps. Maps. Introduction. 1. Are Nations Modern?. a Modernistsa and a Primordialistsa . Ethnie, Myths and Symbols. The Durability of Ethnic Communities. Part I: Ethnic Communities in Pre--Modern Eras:. 2. Foundations of Ethnic Community. The Dimensions of Ethnie. Some Bases of Ethnic Formation. Structure and persistence of Ethnie. 3. Ethnie and Ethnicism in History. Uniqueness and Exclusion. Ethnic Resistance and Renewal. External Threat and Ethnic Response. Two Types of Ethnic Mythomoteur. 4. Class and Ethnie in Agrarian Societies. Military Mobilization and Ethnic Consciousness. Two Types of Ethnie. Ethnic Polities. 5. Ethnic Survival and Dissolution. Location and Sovereignty. Demographic and Cultural Continuity. Dissolution of Ethnie. Ethnic Survival. Ethnic Socialization and Religious Renewal. Part II: Ethnie and Nations in the Modern Era. 6. The Formation of Nations. Western Revolutions. Territorial and Ethnic Nations. Nation--Formation. The Ethnic Model. Ethnic Solidarity or Political Citizenship?. 7. From Ethnie to Nation. Politicization of Ethnie. The New Priesthood. Autarchy and Territorialization. Mobilization and Inclusion. The New Imagination. 8. Legends and Landscapes. Nostalgia and Posterity. The Sense of a The Pasta . Romantic Nationalism as an a Historical Dramaa . Poetic Spaces: The Uses of Landscape. Golden Ages: The Uses of History. Myths and Nation--Building. 9. The Genealogy of Nations. Parmenideans and Heraclitans. The a Antiquitya of Nations. Transcending Ethnicity?. A World of Small Nations. Ethnic Mobilization and Global Security. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set

Abstract: Quantitative scholarship on civil wars has long debated whether ethnic diversity breeds armed conflict. We go beyond this debate and show that highly diverse societies are not more conflict prone. Rather, states characterized by certain ethnopolitical configurations of power are more likely to experience violent conflict. First, armed rebellions are more likely to challenge states that exclude large portions of the population on the basis of ethnic background. Second, when a large number of competing elites share power in a segmented state, the risk of violent infighting increases. Third, incohesive states with a short history of direct rule are more likely to experience secessionist conflicts. We test these hypotheses for all independent states since 1945 using the new Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) data set. Cross-national analysis demonstrates that ethnic politics is as powerful and robust in predicting civil wars as is a country s level of economic development. Using multinomial logit regression, we show that rebellion, infighting, and secession result from high degrees of exclusion, segmentation, and incohesi?n, respectively. More diverse states, on the other hand, are not more likely to suffer from violent conflict.

Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison

Abstract: Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest on questionable theoretical and empirical grounds. Whereas scholars have examined primarily the relationship between individual inequality and conflict, we argue that horizontal inequalities between politically relevant ethnic groups and states at large can promote ethnonationalist conflict. Extending the empirical scope to the entire world, this article introduces a new spatial method that combines our newly geocoded data on ethnic groups’ settlement areas with spatial wealth estimates. Based on these methodological advances, we find that, in highly unequal societies, both rich and poor groups fight more often than those groups whose wealth lies closer to the country average. Our results remain robust to a number of alternative sample definitions and specifications.

Social stratification :class, race, and gender in sociologicalperspective

Abstract: Study Guide Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction The Past, Present, and Future of Social Inequality (David B. Grusky) Part II: Forms and Sources of Stratification The Functions of Stratification Some Principles of Stratification (Kingsley Davis & Wilbert E. Moore) The Dysfunctions of Stratification Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis (Melvin M. Tumin) Inequality by Design (Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martn Snchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss) Concluding Commentary to Part Two New Light on Old Issues: The Relevance of "Really Existing Socialist Societies" for Stratification Theory (Gerhard Lenski) Part III: The Structure of Modern Stratification Theories of Class Marx and Post-Marxists Alienation and Social Classes (Karl Marx) Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism (Karl Marx) Ideology and Class (Karl Marx) Value and Surplus Value (Karl Marx) Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society (Ralf Dahrendorf) Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of Class Structure (Erik Olin Wright) A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure (Erik Olin Wright) Class Conflict in the Capitalist World Economy (Immanuel Wallerstein) Weber and Post-Weberians Class, Status, Party (Max Weber) Status Groups and Classes (Max Weber) Open and Closed Relationships (Max Weber) The Rationalization of Education and Training (Max Weber) The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies (Anthony Giddens) Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique (Frank Parkin) Durkheim and Post-Durkheimians The Division of Labor in Society (Emile Durkheim) Are There Big Social Classes? (David B. Grusky and Jesper B. Srensen ) The Ruling Class and Elites Cassic Statements The Ruling Class (Gaetano Mosca) The Power Elite (C. Wright Mills) Elites and Power (Anthony Giddens) Contemporary Elites in "Mass Society," Capitalism, and Post-Capitalism The Political Class in the Age of Mass Society: Collectivistic Liberalism and Social Democracy (Edward A. Shils) The Inner Circle (Michael Useem) Post-Communist Managerialism

Soviet Federalism and Ethnic Mobilization

Abstract: Central among recent changes in the Soviet Union is an expanding and increasingly public politics of federalism. The Soviet developmental strategy assigned federalism and the cadres of national-territorial administration a central role in its response to the “nationalities question.” This strategy offers a key to three questions about the rise of assertive ethnofederalism over the past three decades: Why have federal institutions that provided interethnic peace during the transition to industrialization become vehicles of protest in recent years? Why have relatively advantaged ethnic groups been most assertive, whereas groups near the lower end of most comparative measures of socioeconomic and political success have been relatively quiescent? Why have major public demands—and the most important issues of contention between center and periphery—focused to such a large degree upon the details of the Soviet developmental strategy and upon federalism in particular