LEADER 04795nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910779147703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89078-X 010 $a0-8122-0289-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202892 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104587 035 $a(OCoLC)794702350 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576139 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631182 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11404065 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631182 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10598870 035 $a(PQKB)11288214 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18478 035 $a(DE-B1597)449148 035 $a(OCoLC)979753702 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202892 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441698 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576139 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441698 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104587 100 $a20080925d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDefining the sovereign community$b[electronic resource] $ethe Czech and Slovak Republics /$fNadya Nedelsky 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 225 1 $aDemocracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4165-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One: Awakenings -- $tChapter Two: Nation-Building in the Empire's Waning Years -- $tChapter Three: The First Republic: Czechoslovakism and Its Discontents -- $tChapter Four: The Second Republic and the Wartime Slovak State -- $tChapter Five: The Third Republic: "Putting an End to All Old Disputes" -- $tChapter Six: The Communist Period: New Vows -- $tChapter Seven: From Velvet Revolution to Velvet Divorce -- $tChapter Eight: The Implications of the Ethnic Model of Sovereignty in Slovakia -- $tChapter Nine: The Implications of the Civic Model of Sovereignty in the Czech Republic -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aThough they shared a state for most of the twentieth century, when the Czechs and Slovaks split in 1993 they founded their new states on different definitions of sovereignty. The Czech Constitution employs a civic model, founding the state in the name of "the citizens of the Czech Republic," while the Slovak Constitution uses the more exclusive ethnic model and speaks in the voice of "the Slovak Nation."Defining the Sovereign Community asks two central questions. First, why did the two states define sovereignty so differently? Second, what impact have these choices had on individual and minority rights and participation in the two states? Nadya Nedelsky examines how the Czechs and Slovaks understood nationhood over the course of a century and a half and finds that their views have been remarkably resilient over time.These enduring perspectives on nationhood shaped how the two states defined sovereignty after the Velvet Revolution, which in turn strongly affected the status of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia and the Roma minority in the Czech Republic. Neither state has secured civic equality, but the nature of the discrimination against minorities differs. Using the civic definition of sovereignty offers stronger support for civil and minority rights than an ethnic model does. Nedelsky's conclusions challenge much analysis of the region, which tends to explain ethnic politics by focusing on postcommunist factors, especially the role of opportunistic political leaders. Defining the Sovereign Community instead examines the undervalued historical roots of political culture and the role of current constitutional definitions of sovereignty. Looking ahead, Nedelsky offers crucial evidence that nationalism may remain strong in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, even in the face of democratization and EU integration, and is an important threat to both. 410 0$aDemocracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism. 606 $aPublic administration$zCzech Republic 606 $aPublic administration$zSlovakia 607 $aCzech Republic$xPolitics and government$y1993- 607 $aSlovakia$xPolitics and government$y1993- 607 $aCzechoslovakia$xPolitics and government 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aPublic administration 615 0$aPublic administration 676 $a943.703 700 $aNedelsky$b Nadya$01519703 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779147703321 996 $aDefining the sovereign community$93757969 997 $aUNINA