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The politics of national minority participation in post-communist Europe : state-building, democracy, and ethnic mobilization / EastWest Institute ; Jonathan P. Stein, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Eastern Europe.
- Politics and government.
- Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Minorities--Political activity--Europe, Eastern.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Political activity.
- Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.
- Post-communism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2000]
- Summary:
- With the upsurge of nationalist sentiment in post-communist societies, the problem of political rights for ethnic minorities became a dangerous flashpoint. The introduction of electoral competition, the rewriting of constitutions, the breakup of federations, the weakness of civic institutions, and the social and economic dislocations associated with marketization have all contributed to the salience of majority-minority relations.
- This collection systematically analyzes different models of minority politics in Eastern Europe, in an effort to understand why tensions are manageable in some contexts, uncontainable in others. Anchoring the volume are major essays by Carlos Flores Juberias on electoral systems, and Janusz Bugajski on nationalist majority parties. Six case studies examine the interaction of different types of institutional arrangements (which structure political participation) and different demographic conditions (ethnic balances and territorial concentration) in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, and Romania. Framing these studies are overviews by the editor and by Jack Snyder.
- Contents:
- National minorities and political development in post-communist Europe / Jonathan P. Stein
- Post-communist electoral systems and national minorities: a dilemma in five paradigms / Carlos Flores Juberías
- Nationalist majority parites: the anatomy of ethnic domination in Central and Eastern Europe / Janusz Bugajski
- The political party as national holding company: the Hungarian Democratic Federation of Romania / Michael Shafir
- Post-imperial ethnocracy and the Russophone minorities of Estonia and Latvia / Neil J. Melvin
- The Greek minority in Albania: ethnic politics in a pre-national state / James Pettifer
- The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe: constructing a stateless nation / Erin Jenne
- Ethnic war and disempowerment: the Serb minority in Croatia / Nenad Zakošek
- Emigration and the politics of identity: the Turkish minority in Bulgaria / Ivan Ilchev
- Managing ethnopolitics in Eastern Europe: an assessment of institutional approaches / Jack Snyder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765605287
- OCLC:
- 44669696
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