The advance of liberal understanding of democracy with its interest in and constrained ability to interfere with citizens’ identities made cases of ethnocracy rare over the past decades. Over the past 25 years, Baltic politics and societies have experienced considerable change, however, as I demonstrate, considerable debate persists around the issues central to the argument about ethnocracy in the region. In the context, when discussing the central role played by state institutions in negotiating conflicts between groups over access to scarce resources of the state, it is central to see minorities as being in both the inferior numerical position as well as in symbolically more disadvantageous place: If we see democratic politics for what they are as majoritarian politics , and if we see these as taking place in the context of state institutions designed to uphold the ethnic majority dominance , then any kind of liberal democratic politics would be a good candidate for ethnocracy.

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扩展族群概念：在波罗的海语境中进行辩论

自由主义对民主的兴趣及其对公民身份的干扰能力受到限制，对民主的理解的进步使得过去几十年来很少发生种族主义案件。在过去的25年中，波罗的海的政治和社会发生了巨大的变化，但是，正如我所展示的那样，围绕该地区种族主义论点的核心问题仍在进行大量辩论。在这种情况下，当讨论国家机构在谈判群体之间因获取国家稀缺资源而发生的冲突中所起的中心作用时，至关重要的是要看到少数群体既处于劣势地位，又处于象征性劣势地位：如果我们将民主政治视为多数派政治，