Ethnic struggle, coexistence, and democratization in Eastern Europe /

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Author / Creator:Stroschein, Sherrill.
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 289 pages) : illustrations, map.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in contentious politics
Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11830658
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ISBN:9781139423731
1139423738
9781107005242
1107005248
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"This book argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic process. Ethnic protest allowed groups to learn about the nature and limits of each other's claims, facilitating new democratic institutions"--
"In societies divided on ethnic and religious lines, problems of democracy are magnified, particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. With the principle of majority rule, minorities should be less willing to endorse democratic institutions where their parties persistently lose elections. While such problems should also hamper transitions to democracy, several diverse Eastern European states have formed democracies even under these conditions. In this book, Sherrill Stroschein argues that sustained protest and contention by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought concessions on policies that they could not achieve through the ballot box, in contrast to Transcarpathia, Ukraine. In Romania and Slovakia, contention during the 1990s made each group accustomed to each other, Ŵs claims, and aware of the degree to which each could push its own. Ethnic contention became a de facto deliberative process that fostered a moderation of group stances, allowing democratic consolidation to slowly and organically take root"--
Other form:Print version: Stroschein, Sherrill. Ethnic struggle, coexistence, and democratization in Eastern Europe. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107005242

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