CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Hristova, Olimpija |
|---|---|
| Title | Decentralization and inter-ethnic cooperation: comparing multiethnic municipalities in Macedonia |
| Summary | This thesis explores what types of inter-ethnic cooperation are there across multiethnic municipalities in Macedonia seven years after the decentralization reforms? To address the research question, I engage in a systematic comparative analysis of nine multiethnic municipalities in Macedonia. The data gathering besides investigation of primary and secondary sources includes exploratory fieldwork through focus group interviews. Employing thematic and fuzzy set ideal type analysis, I derive four types of inter-ethnic cooperation among municipal councilors: dynamic, predominantly informal, pragmatic and minimal cooperation. Out of this analysis I derive hypotheses of the diverse impacts decentralization has across subnational units within the same country. I finally conduct fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to account why in some municipalities there is absence of dynamic inter-ethnic cooperation. |
| Supervisor | Schneider, Carsten Q. |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/hristova_olimpija.pdf |
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