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Territorial Pluralism
Managing Difference in Multinational States
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2015
- Category
- Democracy, General, Globalization
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774828192
- Publish Date
- Jan 2015
- List Price
- $125.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774828178
- Publish Date
- Jan 2015
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774828185
- Publish Date
- Jul 2015
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful, democratic, and just management of difference. But given traditional concerns about state sovereignty and unity, how realistic is it to expect that a state will agree to recognize and empower distinct substate communities? The contributors to this book answer this question by examining a wide variety of cases, including those in developing and industrialized states and democratic and authoritarian regimes. They find that territorial pluralism remains a legitimate and effective means for managing difference in multinational states.
About the authors
Karlo Basta is lecturer of politics and co-director of the Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh.
Richard Simeon is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
This 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.
Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol. 55 No. 1, December 2016
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