Crafting State-Nations India and Other Multinational Democracies

Name: Crafting State-Nations India and Other Multinational Democracies
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ISBN: 9780801897245

ISBN-10: 0801897246

ISBN-13: 9780801897245

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alfred Stepan, Juan J. Linz, Yogendra Yadav

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Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the framework for the state-nation, a new paradigm that addresses the need within democratic nations to accommodate distinct ethnic and cultural groups within a country while maintaining national political coherence.First introduced briefly in 1996 by Alfred Stepan and Juan J. Linz, the state-nation is a country with significant multicultural -- even multinational -- components that engenders strong identification and loyalty from its citizens. Here,…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.26" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

ROBERT W. CAMPBELL is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Indiana University. He is the author of The Socialist Economies in Transition: A Primer on Semi-Reformed Systems, as well as publications on energy policy, research and development, military affairs, and the telecommunications sector in the USSR.



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Preface



Comparative Theory and Political Practice: Do We Need a "State-Nation" Model as Well as a "Nation-State" Model?



India as a State-Nation: Shared Political Community amidst Deep Cultural Diversity



Four Indian Cases That Challenge State-Nation Theory?



Tamils in India: How State-Nation Policies Helped Construct Multiple but Complementary Identities



Tamils in Sri Lanka: How Nation-State Policies Helped Construct Polar and Conflictual Identities



Ukraine: State-Nation Policies in a Unitary State



Federacy: A Formula for Democratically Managing Multinational Societies in Unitary States



The U.S. Federal Model and Multinational Societies: Some Problems for Democratic Theory and Practice


Bibliography


Index