Political participation of ethnic actors in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Galicia and Bukovina in the Habsburg era

Abstract

Investigated the institutional processes in ethnic policy of Austria-Hungary, on the rights and needs of ethnic political actors, processes, internal and external institutionalization of Ukrainian, Polish, Hebrew, Romanian and German political actors Galicia and Bukovina.Based on a combination of methodological
approaches – symbolic relationism, ethnical symbolism, methods of phenomenological, structural, functional, systems and methodology of neo-institutionalism, rational choice theory – highlights features of the implementation power interests, the creation of political institutions, the implementation of public policies ethnic actors. 
Keywords: ethnic actors, politization of ethnicity, state ethnic policy, political participation, political mobilization, protection of group interests, interethnic interaction.