1st Edition

Federal Solutions to Ethnic Problems Accommodating Diversity

By Liam D. Anderson Copyright 2013
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Exploring five distinct models of federal arrangement, this book evaluates the relative merits of each model as a mechanism for managing relations in ethnically divided societies. Two broad approaches to this issue, accommodation and denial, are identified and, from this, five distinct models of federal arrangement are derived. The models; ethnic, anti-ethnic, territorial, ethno-territorial, and... Read more

Introduction Chapter 1: Ethnic Federalism and the Consociational Tradition Chapter 2: In Defence of Ethnic Federalism Chapter 3. Anti-Ethnic Federalism and the Logic of Control Chapter 4: Territorial Federalism and the Logic of Centripetalism Chapter 5: Ethnoterritorial Federalism: A Compromise Model? Chapter 6: Autonomy and Federacy Chapter 7: Bringing it Together.

 

Biography

Liam Anderson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wright State University, USA.