ISBN:
9780415638739
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (270 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in European Politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Institutional legacies of communism
DDC:
323.147
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Osteuropa
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Südosteuropa
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Postkommunismus
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Minderheitenrecht
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Minderheitenpolitik
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Politischer Wandel
Abstract:
Twenty years after the demise of communist policy, this book evaluates the continuing communist legacies in the current minority protection systems and legislations across a number of states in post-communist Europe.The fall of communism and the process of democratisation across post-communist Europe led to considerable change in minority protection with new systems and national political institutions either developed or copied. In general, the new institutions reflected the practices and experiences of (western) European states and were installed upon advice from European sec
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Institutional Legacies of Communism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Identifying the nature of legacy; 1 Introduction: establishing the context; 2 The dead weight of the past? Institutional change, policy dynamics and the communist legacy in minority protection; 3 Faulted for the wrong reasons: Soviet institutionalisation of ethnic diversity and Western (mis)interpretations; 4 Minorities' protection in Russia: is there a 'communist legacy'?
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Soviet parity of nations or Western non-discrimination: is there a dilemma for Russia?Part II Contemporary institutional frameworks; 6 The ideology of minority protection during the post-communist transition in Europe; 7 Institutional memories and institutional legacies: managing minority-majority relations in post-communist Europe qua cultural autonomy; 8 Damp squibs? Essentialist underpinnings of nationalities policy and the limits of minority participation in Slovakia; 9 Ethnic power-sharing in Bosnia and Macedonia: institutional legacies of communism
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Between the Soviet legacy and opportunism: minority policy in UkrainePart III Past legacies and contemporary policies; 11 Old concept new rhetoric? Zero classes for Romani children as an example of minority governance in Slovakia; 12 Soviet nationalities policy and minority protection in the Baltic States: a battle of legacies; 13 Boosting similarity and difference or only difference? Soviet nationality policies and integration in post-communist Estonia; 14 Estonia's state-building: the dying embers of the Soviet institutional legacy?
Description / Table of Contents:
15 The representation of minorities in the public sector in the EU accession process: the case of Croatia16 Conclusion; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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