On June 26, 2020, Dr Andreas Juon successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, titled 'Grievances, identity, and political opportunity: The effects of corporate and liberal power-sharing on ethnic conflict'. In this dissertation, he argues that ethnically-based ('corporate') power-sharing institutions may have divergent effects on various group types and across different time horizons. While pacifying included groups in the short-term, they may conversely lead to violent backlashes by those groups that remain excluded or whose former dominance is now visibly circumscribed. In contrast, these side-effects should be less pronounced in formally group-blind, liberal power-sharing systems.
He tests these expectations quantitatively in a global sample using the Constitutional Power-Sharing Dataset, which he collected as part of his Ph.D. In these analyses, he systematically considers the effects of power-sharing institutions both on the eventual eruption of violence and on underlying mass attitudes, including grievances and ethnic salience. Andreas has now started a 2-year Postdoc at ETH Zurich, where he is working on a new project that investigates majority backlashes against minority rights and power-sharing.
Andreas Juon presenting at the C&C PhD Workshop, 2020.