Gender, Ethnicity and Identity Politics in Post-Communist Countries

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel discusses gender, ethnicity and cultural identities in politics in China and Kazakhstan. Huang’s paper examines the cause and consequence of a lack of women in Chinese leadership positions. Wang and Peng’s paper shows how massive inflow of industrial population in the 1940s shaped social norms of gender equality in Kazakhstan and China. Fang and Hong tell us how arbitrary ethnic identity set by the Chinese state affects citizens’ perception of ethnic identities. Vlasenko discusses the expansion of orthodox church in Russia and support for Putin.

Sub Unit

• Division 13: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

Individual Presentations

• A Quota for Men: Bureaucratic Recruitment and Gender Inequality in China - Xiaoxia Huang, Syracuse University

• Socialist Industrialization and Gender Norm Diffusion: A Subnational Approach - Zhihao WANG, Nanjing University; Liu Peng, University of Minnesota

• The Effect of Nation-Building on Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from China - Jun Fang, University of Michigan; Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong, University of Michigan

• Russia as the Third Rome: The Electoral Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church - Anastasiia Vlasenko, Kyiv School of Economics

Chair

• Nathan Henceroth Albright College

Discussants

• Edmund W. Cheng City University of Hong Kong

• Nathan Henceroth Albright College