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dc.contributor.authorOdlova, Marketa
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T13:28:11Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T13:28:11Z
dc.date.issued2025en
dc.date.submitted2025
dc.identifier.citationOdlová, Markéta, Essays on the Impact of Military Recruitment Policies on Gender and Ethnic Relations, Trinity College Dublin, School of Social Sciences & Philosophy, Political Science, 2025en
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dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the broader societal ramifications of military recruitment policies on groups that are typically, either explicitly or implicitly, excluded from military institutions: women and ethnic minorities. In doing so, it fills a critical gap in existing research by shifting the focus from internal processes within military institutions to their interactions with broader society. The dissertation is structured into three chapters, each supporting the argument that military recruitment policies simultaneously reflect and shape gender and ethnic relations while contributing to the marginalization of specific groups based on their identities. The first chapter, The Overlooked Intersectional Impact of Selective Military Conscription: Interview Evidence from Israeli Ethnic Minority Women, demonstrates that the systematic exemption of specific groups of citizens from mandatory military service generates distinct patterns in their national identification and political interest, as well as systemic disparities in their economic opportunities, language proficiency, professional development, and social opportunities. The chapter employs an inductive, explanatory, and theory-building approach, and draws on 33 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with various groups of Israeli citizens, conducted in the summer of 2023. Through qualitative analysis of variations based on gender, ethnicity, and military service experience, the chapter identifies patterns specific to Israeli Circassian and Druze women who are systematically exempt from the practice, unlike their male counterparts and Israeli Jewish women. The second chapter, Ethnic Military Recruitment: Introducing a New Dataset, presents an original dataset on state-mandated military recruitment of ethnic groups, designed at the ethnic group-year level. The dataset covers military recruitment methods applied by legitimate governments on ethnic groups in 134 countries between 1946 and 2010. The dataset is the first-ever source addressing ethnically selective conscription. As such, it complements existing datasets on state-level military recruitment methods and ethnic stacking in military institutions in specific regions, as well as theoretical works on the topic. The chapter outlines the importance of conscription in the context of ethnic relations, explain the coding strategy, and provide a summary of the data. It also demonstrates the application of the dataset by identifying the characteristics of ethnic groups typically exempt from conscription and propose several avenues for future research. The third chapter, Fighting the Prejudice? The Effects of Opening Combat Roles to Women on Gender Stereotypes Among the Public, examines the impact of integrating women into combat roles on public gender stereotypes. The key argument of the chapter is that the decision to open military roles to women is often driven by efforts to address gender inequality rather than reflecting its actual achievement. Consequently, women’s military integration may occur in contexts that are unprepared for women in traditionally masculine roles, potentially resulting in backlash evidenced by reinforced gender stereotypes. To test the argument, the chapter presents a statistical analysis of public attitudes in five out of the 21 countries that allow their female citizens to serve in combat roles within their military institutions; as well as statistical analysis of gender stereotypes in selected national contexts. The analysis demonstrates that the effects of opening combat roles on gender stereotypes are significant, yet highly context-dependent.en
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dc.publisherTrinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Scienceen
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dc.titleEssays on the Impact of Military Recruitment Policies on Gender and Ethnic Relationsen
dc.typeThesisen
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dc.identifier.peoplefinderurlhttps://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/EnterApex/f?p=800:71:0::::P71_USERNAME:ODLOVMen
dc.identifier.rssinternalid274068en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2262/110722


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