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The Quality of Divided Democracies: Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and Representation in the New Europe
Licia Cianetti
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The Quality of Divided Democracies contemplates how democracy works, or fails to work, in ethnoculturally divided societies. It advances a new theoretical approach to assessing quality of democracy in divided societies, and puts it into practice with the focused comparison of two divided democracies—Estonia and Latvia. The book uses rich comparative data to tackle the vital questions of what determines a democracy's level of inclusiveness and the ways in which minorities can gain access to the policy-making process. It uncovers a "presence–polarization dilemma" for minorities' inclusion in the democratic process, which has implications for academic debates on minority representation and ethnic politics, as well as practical implications for international and national institutions' promotion of minority rights.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Taking Minorities Out of the Footnotes
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Chapter 2. Presence, Polarization, and the Five Channels for Minority Inclusion
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Chapter 3. The Cases of Estonia and Latvia
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Chapter 4. The Parliamentary Channel
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Chapter 5. The International Channel
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Chapter 6. The City Channel
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Chapter 7. The Consultations Channel
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Chapter 8. The Grassroots Channel
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Chapter 9. Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2019
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-13116-7 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12462-6 (ebook)