Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New EuropeKarl Cordell 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 |
Contents
aims and objectives | 3 |
Ethnicity and democracy complementary or incompatible | 11 |
Ethnicity in Western Europe today | 24 |
Citizenship ethnicity and democratisation after | 37 |
Critical reflections on the return of national minority | 49 |
The OSCE and the internationalisation of national | 61 |
Catalan nationalism and the democratisation process | 77 |
Immigration policy and new ethnic minorities | 91 |
Parties elections and the Slovene minority in Austria | 106 |
The Albanian communities in the postcommunist | 131 |
Minority rights and Roma politics in Hungary | 145 |
the struggle for recognition | 169 |
Official and academic discourse on ethnicity | 183 |
The Tajik minority in contemporary Uzbekistani politics | 197 |
whither Europe? | 213 |
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