Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia’s ethnic, political and cultural diversity continues to pose major policy and governance hurdles in enforcing a common community born out of the post-colonial nationalist baggage of almost all the region’s countries. ASEAN’s “non-interference” clause gives leeway to each member state...

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Main Authors: Juliano, Hansley A, Ordoñez, Matthew David D, La Viña, Antonio Gabriel M
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.polsci-faculty-pubs-10122020-07-08T10:32:04Z Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia Juliano, Hansley A Ordoñez, Matthew David D La Viña, Antonio Gabriel M Southeast Asia’s ethnic, political and cultural diversity continues to pose major policy and governance hurdles in enforcing a common community born out of the post-colonial nationalist baggage of almost all the region’s countries. ASEAN’s “non-interference” clause gives leeway to each member state to respond to its ethnic diversity with nation-building projects through exclusionary governance. With this leeway, each Southeast Asian country’s nation-building policieslegitimize a particular, existing ethno-nationalist or “ethno-religious” majority at the expense of democratic accountability. This study proposes a preliminary quantitative model which uses regression analysis to compare Southeast Asian countries’ data on their religious and ethnic populations. The initial model categorizes the types of minority management strategies depending on their respective ethnic heterogeneity. This study hypothesizes that a) states with moreethnically homogenous populations will have more exclusionary and violent state policies towards minorities, while b) states with more heterogeneous populations will have fewer exclusionary and violent policies. The results indicate a moderate causality between the two variables and may be correlated with additional variables such as the level of democratic consolidation (as tabulated by the Polity IV democratic index) and the centralized structure of governance. 2019-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/polsci-faculty-pubs/13 https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=polsci-faculty-pubs Political Science Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Southeast Asia nationalism in Southeast Asia state-building in Asia International Relations Political Science
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topic Southeast Asia
nationalism in Southeast Asia
state-building in Asia
International Relations
Political Science
spellingShingle Southeast Asia
nationalism in Southeast Asia
state-building in Asia
International Relations
Political Science
Juliano, Hansley A
Ordoñez, Matthew David D
La Viña, Antonio Gabriel M
Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia
description Southeast Asia’s ethnic, political and cultural diversity continues to pose major policy and governance hurdles in enforcing a common community born out of the post-colonial nationalist baggage of almost all the region’s countries. ASEAN’s “non-interference” clause gives leeway to each member state to respond to its ethnic diversity with nation-building projects through exclusionary governance. With this leeway, each Southeast Asian country’s nation-building policieslegitimize a particular, existing ethno-nationalist or “ethno-religious” majority at the expense of democratic accountability. This study proposes a preliminary quantitative model which uses regression analysis to compare Southeast Asian countries’ data on their religious and ethnic populations. The initial model categorizes the types of minority management strategies depending on their respective ethnic heterogeneity. This study hypothesizes that a) states with moreethnically homogenous populations will have more exclusionary and violent state policies towards minorities, while b) states with more heterogeneous populations will have fewer exclusionary and violent policies. The results indicate a moderate causality between the two variables and may be correlated with additional variables such as the level of democratic consolidation (as tabulated by the Polity IV democratic index) and the centralized structure of governance.
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author Juliano, Hansley A
Ordoñez, Matthew David D
La Viña, Antonio Gabriel M
author_facet Juliano, Hansley A
Ordoñez, Matthew David D
La Viña, Antonio Gabriel M
author_sort Juliano, Hansley A
title Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia
title_short Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia
title_full Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia
title_fullStr Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia
title_full_unstemmed Dealing with diversity: State strategies on ethnic minority management in Southeast Asia
title_sort dealing with diversity: state strategies on ethnic minority management in southeast asia
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2019
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/polsci-faculty-pubs/13
https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=polsci-faculty-pubs
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