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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the implications of territorial pluralism for the peaceful and democratic management of difference in states characterized by ethnic, national, linguistic, or cultural divisions.
Trade ReviewThis is undoubtedly a definitive and comprehensive volume; it will be an invaluable source book for policymakers and scholars alike who have an abiding interest in the management of differences in multinational states. -- Kham Khan Suan Hausing, University of Hyderabad * Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol. 55 No. 1, December 2016 *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction / Richard Simeon
Part 1: Conceptual and Normative Dimensions
1 Territorial Pluralism: Taxonomizing Its Forms, Virtues, and Flaws / John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary
2 A Conceptual and Normative Analysis of Territorial Pluralism / Mira Bachvarova and Margaret Moore
3 Caught in the Minority Trap: Limits of Territorial Autonomy / Peter A. Kraus
Part 2: Empirical and Comparative Dimensions
4 Is Federalism Like Snow, and Is It Exportable? Some Cautionary Notes on the Study of Federalism / Richard Simeon
5 Territorial Autonomy in Nationally Divided Societies: The Experience of the United Kingdom, Spain, and Bosnia and Herzegovina / Michael Keating
6 Sustaining Territorial Pluralism: The Political Economy of Institutional Change / Karlo Basta
7 Territorial Pluralism in Spain: Characteristics and Assessment / César Colino and Angustias Hombrado
8 Belgium and the Crisis of Governability, 2007-11: Rebooting Territorial Pluralism? / Wilfried Swenden
9 Land and Citizenship in Nigerian Ethnofederalism / John Boye Ejobowah
10 Ethnic Territory, Land Tenure, and Citizenship in Africa: The Politics of Devolution in Ghana and Kenya / Bruce J. Berman
11 Consociational Theory, Self-Determination Disputes, and Territorial Pluralism: The Case of Cyprus / John McGarry
12 The Two Shadows of Empire and Still-Born Federalism in China / André Laliberté
Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Territorial Pluralism / Karlo Basta and Richard Simeon
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