"Does Džeko Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina?": Demographics as a Hostage of Ethno-politics in the 2013 Census
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10413842" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10413842 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=8pmtJK-uIm" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=8pmtJK-uIm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325420941111" target="_blank" >10.1177/0888325420941111</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Does Džeko Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina?": Demographics as a Hostage of Ethno-politics in the 2013 Census
Original language description
In ethnically divided societies and political systems organized according to the principles of consociationalism, demography plays a crucial role as a powerful tool for promoting ethno-political interests. The aim of this article is to evaluate to what extent the first post-war 2013 census in Bosnia and Herzegovina became a hostage to the principle of ethno-politics. This study is grounded in Horowitz's analysis of censuses in deeply divided societies, which assumes that ethnic identity in fragmented societies provides an explanation of who people vote for, and the reverse. We use the data on ethnic voting in 2014 as an indirect estimate of the ethnic structure of the population to verify the 2013 census findings. To do so, we determine the extent to which people enumerated as residents in the 2013 census actually live at the places they were counted, as required by the census law. Although we found that the indirect estimate of ethnic demography based on ethnic voting is largely in line with the census results, we also identified specific structural discrepancies between census results and voting patterns that indicate possible flaws in the census data in general. The method we used revealed significant territorial discrepancies, bringing into question the validity of the census data about the presence of Bosniak and Croat returnees in the Republika Srpska, and especially for Croats across Bosnia and Herzegovina. We argue that these discrepancies may have significant political consequences for the fragile Bosnian power-sharing system based on ethnic quotas and proportionality.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-11397S" target="_blank" >GA19-11397S: Bosnian Fluxes: Everyday entanglements of war, postsocialism and (neo)liberalization in Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East European Politics and Societies
ISSN
0888-3254
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
35
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
1013-1042
UT code for WoS article
000561895500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85089575135