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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786448603321

Autore

Anderson Liam D.

Titolo

Federal solutions to ethnic problems : accommodating diversity / / Liam D. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-17686-1

0-203-08202-8

1-283-86096-1

1-136-17687-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Exeter studies in ethno politics

Disciplina

323.11

Soggetti

Minorities - Government policy

Federal government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Ethnic federalism and the consociational tradition -- In defence of ethnic federalism -- Anti-ethnic federalism and the logic of control -- Territorial federalism and the logic of centripetalism -- Ethnoterritorial federalism: a compromise model? -- Autonomy and federacy -- Bringing it together.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring five distinct models of federal arrangement, this book evaluates the relative merits of each model as a mechanism for managing relations in ethnically divided societies. Two broad approaches to this issue, accommodation and denial, are identified and, from this, five distinct models of federal arrangement are derived. The models; ethnic, anti-ethnic, territorial, ethno-territorial, and federacy, are defined and then located within their broader theoretical tradition. Detailed case studies are used to evaluate the strengths and weakness of each model and highlight pat