Diversity in Action: Local Public
Management of Multi-Ethnic Communities
Edited by Anna-Maria Biro and Petra Kovacs
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The book will be distributed primarily to schools of public
administration, local governments, NGOs, and international organizations
focusing on multi-ethnic polices.
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Petra Kovacs
LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project
Hungary 1051
Budapest
Nador u. 11
email: kovacsp@osi.hu
Tel: (361) 327.31.04 /ext 2316
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"Diversity in Action" offers both theoretical and policy-oriented
perspectives on local management of ethnically heterogenous communities
throughout the Central-European region. The volume highlights challenges and
problems faced by ethnic minorities in the areas of education, access to
public services and media outlets, public participation at the local level,
linguistic rights and other issues. Policy recommendations intended to
sensitize public administration reform efforts to multi-ethnic issues are
presented at the end of each chapter. The countries covered by the book are:
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.
BOOK REVIEWS
"As some people realize (and others not), the Central-Eastern European
region represents a specific culture in itself: a mixture of post-communism
and multi-ethnicity. The explosive nature of such a cultural heritage has
become clear with the dissolution of former Yugoslavia. This excellent book
considers democratic ways and forms of dealing with this threatening legacy. I
would recommend it to scholars, policy-makers, teachers, civil servants and
activists not only from countries of the region but also from the West."
- Martin Potucek, President, Network of Institutions and Schools of Public
Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee)
"The editors of this compilation rightly assert that a systemic
response is required in order to move forward the institutional transition
towards deep-rooted and self-sustaining democracies in Central and Eastern
Europe. Reform of the professional and social culture of public administration
is key, especially at the local level.
With particular emphasis on issues of cultural diversity, this book
provides an overview of contemporary European understandings of diversity,
including international standards, together with analysis of country
situations which will inform and shape the reader. This book should be widely
circulated among and carefully studied by public administrative authorities
and civil servants throughout Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. While
constitutional and judicial guarantees may offer ultimate protection for
individuals within the jurisdiction of the state, the practical reality is
that both rights and general respect is in the first place accorded (or not)
by public administration at the local level where the lives of ordinary
persons are affected - for better or worse - everyday. Good public
administration, delivered through professional and respectful civil servants,
is thus of critical importance. This book is a helpful tool for interested
authorities and concerned individuals in achieving this end."
- John Packer, Director, Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National
Minorities
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
Anna-Mária Biró and Petra Kovács Diversity in Action:
Local Public Management of Multiethnic Communities
PART ONE
THE CONTEXT: POLICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
- George Schöpflin Minorities and Democracy
- Tony Verheijen Public Administration Reform: A Mixed Picture
- Patrick Thornberry An Unfinished Story of Minority Rights
- Appendix A Framework Convention for the Protection of National
Minorities
- Appendix B Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National,
Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities
- Appendix C Lund Recommendations on the Effective Participation of
National Minorities in Public Life
PART TWO
THE PRACTICE: STRUCTURES, POLICIES AND MULTI-ETHNIC DYNAMICS
- Elena Gyurova Emerging Multi-ethnic Policies in Bulgaria: A
Central-Local Perspective
- Laura Laubeova The Fiction of Ethnic Homogeneity: Minorities in the
Czech Republic
- Jenõ Kaltenbach >From Paper to Practice: The Protection and
Involvement of Minorities in Governance
- Piotr Bajda, Magdalena Syposz and Dariusz Wojakowski Equality in Law,
Equality in Fact: Minority Law and Practice in Poland
- Jan Bucek Responding to Diversity: Solutions at the Local Level in
Slovakia
- István Horváth and Alexandra Scacco >From the Unitary
to the Pluralistic: Fine-Tuning Minority Policy in Romania
- Viktor Stepanenko A State to Build, A Nation to Form: Ethno-Policy in
the Ukraine
PART THREE
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF TERMS
INDEX OF MINORITY GROUPS
