Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe

Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe
ISBN-10
113469024X
ISBN-13
9781134690244
Category
Political Science
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2006-08-21
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Karl Cordell

Description

A broad-ranging study that explores the complex relationship between ethnicity and democratization, focusing on specific case studies including France, Spain, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Albania and Hungary. Marrying the empirical and theoretical, the book begins by conceptualizing the nature of ethnicity and relating these ideas to different theories of democracy and democratization. The contributors locate ethnic experiences within a series of common frameworks to shed light on key issues such as: * the effect of democratization and authoritarian rule on ethnic tensions * the extent to which ethnicity is constructed as an ideological tool * whether democracy can only function if all citizens are fully assimilated.

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