Politics and ethnicity : a comparative study / Joseph Rudolph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudolph, Joseph R. (Joseph Russell), 1942-

Series:

Perspectives in comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Political aspects.

Ethnicity.

Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Ethnic relations.

Politics and culture.

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 254 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

Politics and Ethnicity explores the range of ethno-political conflict, the manner in which it emerges and influences political processes, and its susceptibility to management in the contemporary world. This book focuses on those salient forms of conflict in which the ethnic factor is reinforced by or reinforces other bases of social and political segmentation, such as class and territoriality. Acknowledging the degree to which context affects the different manifestations of ethno-class and ethno-territorial issues, Politics and Ethnicity examines such topics as the historical parallels between anti-Semitic and anti-Romany discrimination in Europe; the different faces of separatism in the advanced democratic, democratizing post-communist, and developing worlds; the role of anti-immigrant parties in the still evolving conflict between Europe's Muslim communities and indigenous peoples; the changing face of ethnic conflict in our time; and the contemporary drift towards extraconstitutional means of managing it.

Contents:

1 Ethnicity and Politics in the Contemporary World 1

Part 1 France: Ethnopolitics in the Developed West

2 The Setting of Politics in the Advanced Democratic World 19

3 Ethnoterritorial Politics in France 38

4 Ethnoclass Politics in France: Multiculturalism in an Assimilationist Republic 53

5 Ethnopolitics in France in a Comparative Perspective 74

Part 2 Czechoslovakia: Ethnopolitics in Postcommunist Europe

6 The Setting of Politics in Postcommunist Europe 101

7 Ethnoterritorial Politics in Czechoslovakia and the Creation and Dissolution of a State 111

8 Ethnoclass Politics in Former Czechoslovakia 125

9 Ethnopolitics in Former Czechoslovakia in a Comparative Perspective 139

Part 3 Nigeria: Ethnopolitics in the Multinational Third World

10 The Setting of Politics in the Developing World 163

11 Ethnopolitics in Nigeria 179

12 Ethnopolitics in Nigeria in a Comparative Perspective 193

13 Reflections on the Management of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Contemporary World 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-246) and index.

ISBN:

1403962332

1403962340

OCLC:

62741569

Publisher Number:

9781403962348

9781403962331