Politics and Ethnicity: A Comparative Study

✍ Scribed by Joseph Rudolph (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Perspectives on Comparative Politics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a brief, broad, comparative study of ethnic politics that places ethnic conflict within the context of particular political systems. To develop these themes, they are explored by comparing and contrasting the experiences of France, Czechoslovakia and its subsequent division, and Nigeria.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Ethnicity and Politics in the Contemporary World....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Setting of Politics in the Advanced Democratic World....Pages 19-37
Ethnoterritorial Politics in France....Pages 38-52
Ethnoclass Politics in France: Multiculturalism in an Assimilationist Republic....Pages 53-73
Ethnopolitics in France in a Comparative Perspective....Pages 74-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
The Setting of Politics in Postcommunist Europe....Pages 101-110
Ethnoterritorial Politics in Czechoslovakia and the Creation and Dissolution of a State....Pages 111-124
Ethnoclass Politics in Former Czechoslovakia....Pages 125-138
Ethnopolitics in Former Czechoslovakia in a Comparative Perspective....Pages 139-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
The Setting of Politics in the Developing World....Pages 163-178
Ethnopolitics in Nigeria....Pages 179-192
Ethnopolitics in Nigeria in a Comparative Perspective....Pages 193-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Reflections on the Management of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Contemporary World....Pages 209-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-254

✦ Subjects

Comparative Politics; Ethnicity Studies; Political Science