Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe

A broadranging study that explores the complex relationship between ethnicityand democratization focusing on specific case studies including France SpainSlovaki... » 

A broadranging study that explores the complex relationship between ethnicityand democratization focusing on specific case studies including France SpainSlovakia the Czech Republic Russia Albania and Hungary. Marrying theempirical and theoretical the book begins by conceptualizing the nature ofethnicity and relating these ideas to different theories of democracy anddemocratization. The contributors locate ethnic experiences within a series ofcommon frameworks to shed light on key issues such as the effect of democratization and authoritarian rule on ethnic tensions the extent to which ethnicity is constructed as an ideological tool whether democracy can only function if all citizens are fully assimilated. «