![]() ![]() With movements and protests becoming central to state-society interactive processes, this paper looks at power sharing and political bargaining as an institutional strategy that ethnic groups employ for addressing their grievances, particularly in diverse societies. Political representation, beyond the domain of electoral politics, is an important nonmilitary institutional strategy for expressing perceived inequalities and for negotiating conflict in ethnically divided societies. It is this that can become a condition for likelihood of ethnic conflict. ![]() An important condition that underlies the state-ethnic group(s) causal interface is the perceived inequalities of communities. On the other hand, the emphasis on the cultural base of the state has brought the state-system into the core of the state-society causal argument, driving interactive processes. ![]() This, on one hand, has brought a shift in the focus on state and the modern state-system in studies on ethnic conflict, from the conventional perspective that viewed ethnic conflicts as a condition under state failure. With interest in social institutions expanding, and the centering of attention on state as an institution that is essentially cultural, a major interest in recent literature on ethnicity studies is on people, communities, and societies-(i) as collective actors in relation with the state as the sovereign authority and (ii) the process of interface between the state and the ethnic groups that constitute the ethno-demographic profile of the state. ![]()
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