Sherrill Stroschein

Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781107656949
• ISBN-10: 110765694X
• Artikelnr.: 40788558

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.