Overview
- Contributes to the understanding of the workings of multinational federations
- Includes single case studies and comparative pieces as well as theoretical discussions on federalism in multinational settings
- Addresses the concerns of non-territorial minorities or minorities in minorities
Part of the book series: Federalism and Internal Conflicts (FEINCO)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Multinational Federations at Risk and in Retreat
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The Stalled Emergence of Multinational Federalism
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Recognizing and Accommodating National and Other Diversities: Success or Failure?
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Conclusion
Keywords
- multinational federalism
- multiethnic federalism
- new institutionalism
- bipolar federalism
- dyadic federations
- territorial dispersion
- Catalan independence
- federal coercion
- recentralization
- multicultural federation
- national unity
- national polarisation
- Hong Kong
- collective identity
- national integration
- multi-level governance
- migration
- disenfranchisement
- self-rule rights
- differentiated citizenship
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Reviews
“This collection of casestudies represents an original and important contribution by a group of eminent and emerging scholars who provide lucid analyses of the institutions and practices of devolved autonomies for national and other minorities. What are the ingredients of a substantive multinational federalism? While no one roadmap reveals itself, Gagnon and Tremblay identify institutional ingredients and cultural norms that are crucial to realizing the ‘federal promise’ of diverse multinational states.” (James Bickerton, Professor of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
“As majoritarian nationalist movements challenge many of the practices and institutions which have evolved to recognise and accommodate diversity in complex societies, this is a timely and important volume. Contributors offera genuinely global perspective on the challenges and prospects for federalism in multi-national settings, and break new ground by foregrounding challenges that were frequently absent in earlier scholarship such as the rights of internal migrants, and minorities within minorities. This wide-ranging collection will be invaluable as a resource for teaching and for researchers.” (Louise Tillin, Reader in Politics, King’s College London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alain-G. Gagnon is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, and Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Diversity and Democracy. He has authored more than 500 works in political sociology, federal studies and Canadian politics. His research has been translated into twenty languages.
Arjun Tremblay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina, Canada, and author of Diversity in Decline? The Rise of the Political Right and the Fate of Multiculturalism (2019). His research focuses on the near and longer-term prospects of multiculturalism, multinational federalism, and other diversity-oriented projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Federalism and National Diversity in the 21st Century
Editors: Alain-G. Gagnon, Arjun Tremblay
Series Title: Federalism and Internal Conflicts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38419-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38418-0Published: 23 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38421-0Published: 23 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38419-7Published: 21 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5370
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 339
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Governance and Government, Regionalism, Democracy, Comparative Politics, Public Policy