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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
wiley   +1 more source

What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

THE TRIBAL PROBLEM BETWEEN IRAQ AND IRAN (1925–1960)

گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ
The Jaf tribe is considered one of the most influential and historically significant Kurdish tribes. Branches of this tribe live across both Iraqi and Iranian territories.
Fakhir Yousif
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Equality Amongst Speakers of English: Distributive and Relational Approaches

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how egalitarians should characterise the complex and multifaceted inequalities associated with the ongoing global spread of English(es). We argue that global linguistic inequality today cannot be reduced to a single dimension, such as inequality of power or status.
Andrew Shorten, Sergi Morales‐Gálvez
wiley   +1 more source

Identical Platform, Divergent Publics: Sweden and Finland During the 2022 NATO Crisis

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Digital platforms are often theorized as universal drivers of political polarization, yet empirical patterns remain inconsistent across countries. Leveraging the natural‐experiment logic of Sweden's and Finland's simultaneous 2022 NATO applications and the NATO–Turkey diplomatic crisis, this study examines how national political cultures ...
Selcen Ozturkcan
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
wiley   +1 more source

The Afterlife of Sacrifice in the Kurdish Movement

Cultural Anthropology
What happens when sacrifice is imagined in terms of a debt that can be repaid? In the ongoing conflict begun in 1984 between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the Turkish state, Kurdish revolutionary discourse has characterized death as the required price for liberation.
openaire   +2 more sources

Imagined Majorities: Perceived Group Size and Population Replacement Beliefs in Turkey

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 6, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Population‐replacement beliefs are often treated as an intensified form of demographic misperception. This article instead argues that they comprise three distinct layers: perceptions of the current migrant population size, expectations of future growth and the attribution of deliberate political agency.
Evren Balta, Ezgi Elçi, Deniz Sert
wiley   +1 more source

The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary, Omid Asayesh, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of L1 Transfer on the Acquisition of Wh-Movement Constraints in English Syntactic Islands: Evidence from Behdini-Kurdish Learners

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study explores how Behdini-Kurdish learners of English navigate the complex terrain of wh-movement restrictions within syntactic islands—structures that typically resist such movement in English.
Shivan Shlaymoon Toma
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