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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment [PDF]
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal institutions,
Srinivasan, T.N., Singh, Nirvikar
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Abstract Electoral systems in deeply divided societies are pivotal for peace and stability among ethno‐national groups. Consociationalism and centripetalism are the most widespread approaches from which derive the major incentives for electoral systems in deeply divided, dyadic societies.
Ivan Pepić
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The Limits of Regionalism in Achieving Effective Spatial Outcomes
Abstract Institutional quality matters and decentralisation and regionalisation should be in service of this overall aim. This paper, in putting forward this simple proposition, lays out evidence on regionalisation, decentralisation and institutions. Despite an assumption that the establishment of regional bodies can solve a series of problems – such ...
Pedro Marques, David Waite
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El federalismo en la historiografía política colombiana (1853-1886)
Between 1853 and 1885, the governing principle of federalism was practically unquestioned by Colombian elites. Despite the abundant historiography on the period, what federalism meant to different actors, and the politics of its institutionalization ...
Edwin Cruz Rodríguez
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The dynamics of reform of India’s federal system [PDF]
Föderalismus, Reform, Indien, Federalism ...
Nirvikar Singh
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Resisting language shift: Scaling and rescaling Circassian and Russian across urban and rural Adygea
Abstract This article employs scalar analysis to explore the language practices of Circassians in Adygea, a republic in Russia situated on the traditional lands of the Indigenous Circassian people. Paying attention to language ideological assemblages in urban and rural areas, I examine how Circassians navigate and attempt to reconfigure linguistic ...
Valeriya Minakova
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This allocates responsibilities for the topics covered in the exchange of messages between Hamoudi and McCormack regarding "Federalism Assignment." All of that exchange should be consulted for amplification of the topics - this just sets out specific ...
McCormack, Wayne
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Abstract Older Asian Americans are the fastest‐growing segment of the US aging population, with a majority of them being foreign‐born and underserved by formal services. Existing scholarship largely draws on the health behavior model and the immigrant assimilation literature to explain this underutilization, treating service access as an individual ...
Xuemei Cao
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Towards decentralized fiscal constitutions
The theory of fscal federalism makes a strong case for decentralizing government functions in order to enhance efficiency in allocating public goods vvhere preferences differ among regions.
Paul Bernd Spahn
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