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Crafting State-Nations : India and other multinational democracies / Alfred Stepan, Juan J. Linz, and Yogendra Yadav.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stepan, Alfred C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multinational states--Case studies.
- Multinational states.
- Democracy--Case studies.
- Democracy.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 308 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Comparative theory and political practice : do we need a "state-nation" model as well as a "nation-state" model?
- India as a state-nation : shared political community amidst deep cultural diversity
- Four Indian cases that challenge state-nation theory?
- Tamils in India : how state-nation policies helped construct multiple but complementary identities
- Tamils in Sri Lanka : how nation-state policies helped construct polar and conflictual identities
- Ukraine : state-nation policies in a unitary state
- Federacy : a formula for democratically managing multinational societies in unitary states
- The U.S. federal model and multinational societies : some problems for democratic theory and practice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801897238
- 0801897238
- 9780801897245
- 0801897246
- OCLC:
- 542263624
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