| No 69
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National Minorities and the Government of Divided Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Some European Evidence |
| Institution |
University of Limerick: Republic of Ireland |
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Publication (Journal) |
European Journal of Political Research 18 no. 4 (July 1990): 437-56 |
| Published in |
Netherlands, 1990 |
| Language |
English |
| Abstract |
This comparative study presens government solutions to the problems of ethnic minorities in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, and Ireland, states created in Europe after WWI. Analysis includes examination of ethnocultural factors, demographic profiles, international restraints, and the various strategies used by each regime. It is concluded that the six states were mostly successful in acknowledging and dealing with minorities. Several considerations in the social assimilation of minorities are discussed, including demographic assimilation, cultural distances between the minority and the majority, and using language or religion as measures of ethnicity. |
| Discipline(s) |
political sociology
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