Hardline ethnic parties can modernize and thrive in peace processes.

Evidence

Such a world view may be tempted to regard more hard-line ethnically-based parties as anachronistic and doomed to extinction while more moderate parties, even if ethnically based, as poised to reap the rewards of a moderating political environment. The narrative of ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ and ‘old’ versus ‘new’ has been readily observable in Northern Ireland when repeated references were made to the ‘dinosaurs’ of the Democratic Unionist Party (Breen, 2001; O’Hara, 2006): the obvious inference being that parties that fail to modernize in sympathy with a new political environment will become extinct. Yet as this article argues, exclusive political parties engaged in ethnic outbidding can also be modern political entities capable of the successful mobilization of support thanks to a variety of contemporary techniques. — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 73

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s threatened-privilege mobilization research: DUP electoral success under power-sharing is the pluralist-democratic case against which to test whether majority outbidding dynamics replicate. Nicely parallel to this claim that hardline parties can modernize while staying hardline. — connects to: Ethnic outbidding can be modulated and coexist with party modernization — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 22; Ethnonational parties can simultaneously outbid rivals and modernize — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 24; Ethnic outbidding intensity fluctuates over a peace process’s timeline, not continuously — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 45 (+2 more)

Related

• Ethnic outbidding can be modulated and coexist with party modernization (similarity 0.90)
• Ethnonational parties can simultaneously outbid rivals and modernize (similarity 0.90)
• Ethnic parties shift toward moderation only after securing dominance over in-group rivals (similarity 0.86)
• Sectarian outbidding parties can still adopt modern party organization (similarity 0.85)
• Parties can wield elections as outbidding instruments against peace processes (similarity 0.84)
• Outbidding and party modernization mutually reinforce each other rather than conflict (similarity 0.83)
• Ethnic outbidding intensity fluctuates over a peace process’s timeline, not continuously (similarity 0.83)
• Ethnic outbidding is intra-bloc competition that blocks inter-group compromise. (similarity 0.82)
• Outbidding is context dependent and can phase-shift toward moderation after in-group victory (similarity 0.80)
• Centralized party structures enable disciplined and nuanced outbidding strategies (similarity 0.79)
• Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty — Ethnic Outbidding and Party Modernization Understanding the Democratic Unionist Party’s Electoral Success in the Post-Agreement Environment (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ethnic parties shift toward moderation only after securing dominance over in-group rivals #complicates (0.78) — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 103
• Peace negotiations succeed when secondary and tertiary parties from both sides participate #corroborates (0.72) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 808