The Quality of Divided Democracies
Subtitle: Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and Representation in the New Europe
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Feb 20, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780472131167
Description: "The Quality of Divided Democracies is about how democracy works, or fails to work, in ethno-culturally 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 'voice-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"--
Notes: Source title: The Quality of Divided Democracies: Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and Representation in the New Europe (New Comparative Politics)