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Federalism, territorial autonomy and the management of ethnic diversity in Africa: reading the balance sheet [PDF]
, 2012 The history of federalism in Africa is a history of ambivalence. In the run up to independence, federalism was an idea that galvanized several political movements that, following the retreat of colonial powers, emerged to represent the interest of ethnic
Fessha, Yonatan Tesfaye
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert +2 more
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FEDERALISM IN RUSSIA AND EVOLUTION OF THE REGIONAL STATEHOOD: THE CASE OF REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN
RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2015 Approaches to the optimization of the federal government system should ensure increasing efficiency of the authorities at both federal and regional levels.
Аlavutdin R Ibragimov, Yury A Zubarev
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Liberal Pluralism and Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe (W. Kymlicka Views’ Analysis)
Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, 2017 Will Kymlicka is widely known in the world for the research in the field of the theoretical principles of liberal pluralism and justification of the policy of multiculturalism.
Oleh Kozachuk
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Nations as Natural Families: From Kin Selection to Multilevel Selection
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In nationalism studies, nations are often viewed as artificial constructs. By contrast, many sociobiologists see nations as natural families or kin groups. They explain altruism and shared ancestry among co‐nationals through kin selection theory, which accounts for altruism towards close genetic relatives. In this article, we refine and deepen
Filipe Nobre Faria, Sandra Dzenis
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Decentralization and Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Empowerment [PDF]
Decentralization is increasing in all parts of the world. Assessing the efficiency of decentralization as a means to mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance.
Tranchant, Jean-Pierre
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Heterogeneity, Politics of Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism What is a Viable Framework for Indonesia? [PDF]
, 2011 Indonesia is a plural society that consists of several hundred ethnic and sub-ethnic groups. One of its generic characteristics is heterogeneity. In the last ten years after the implementation of regional autonomy, we have witnessed the emergence of ...
Lan, T. J. (Thung)
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Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
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Fiscal federalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina : The Dayton challenge [PDF]
The authors describe Bosnia's current arrangements in fiscal federalism, outline the unique challenges that the Dayton system proposed, and draw lessons for the design of fiscal federal systems in ethnically diverse economies. Traditional economic models
Fox, William, Wallich, Christine
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article replicates a survey experiment by Baekgaard, Moynihan, and Thomsen (2021), analyzing individual‐level differences as to why administrative burdens are constructed and imposed on individuals by policymakers. Administrative burdens are known to be consequential and distributive. So why do policymakers support them?
Maria Tiggelaar, Bert George
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