Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Dr Sherrill Stroschein is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics in the Department of Political Science and Program Coordinator of the MSc in Democracy at University College London. She was previously an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and an Assistant Professor at Ohio University. She completed her PhD at Columbia University under the supervision of the late Dr Charles Tilly. Her publications examine the politics of ethnicity in democracies with mixed ethnic or religious populations and her work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Ethnopolitics, Nations and Nationalism and Party Politics, among other journals. She is also the editor of Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities (2007). Klappentext Argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic process. Zusammenfassung This book argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic process. Ethnic protest allowed groups to learn about the nature and limits of each other's claims! facilitating new democratic institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ethnic protest, moderation, and democratization; 2. Time, process, and events in democratization; 3. Ethnic contention in context; 4. Local violence and uncertainty in Târgu Mure¿, 1990; 5. The power of symbols: Romanians, Hungarians, and King Mathias in Cluj; 6. Forging language laws: schools and sign wars; 7. Debating local governance: autonomy, local control, and minority enclaves; 8. Implications of group interaction.

Product details

• Authors: Sherrill Stroschein, Sherrill (University College London) Stroschein, Stroschein Sherrill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107005242
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00524-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Romania, Slovakia, Social & political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Comparative Politics, Hungary, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies