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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788370503321

Autore

Stepan Alfred C.

Titolo

Crafting State-Nations : India and other multinational democracies / / Alfred Stepan, Juan J. Linz, Yogendra Yadav

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-8018-9942-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

321/.8

Soggetti

Multinational states

Democracy

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

Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 Comparative Theory and Political Practice: Do We Need a ''State-Nation'' Model as Well as a ''Nation-State'' Model?; 2 India as a State-Nation: Shared Political Community amidst Deep Cultural Diversity; 3 Four Indian Cases That Challenge State-Nation Theory?; 4 Tamils in India: How State-Nation Policies Helped Construct Multiple but Complementary Identities; 5 Tamils in Sri Lanka: How Nation-State Policies Helped Construct Polar and Conflictual Identities; 6 Ukraine: State-Nation Policies in a Unitary State

7 Federacy: A Formula for Democratically Managing Multinational Societies in Unitary States8 The U.S. Federal Model and Multinational Societies: Some Problems for Democratic Theory and Practice; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z